The paper traces the development of the use of martingale methods in survival analysis from the mid 1970’s to the early 1990’s. This development was initiated by Aalen’s Berkeley PhD-thesis in 1975, progressed through the work on estimation of Markov transition probabilities, non-parametric tests and Cox’s regression model in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, and it was consolidated in the earl...

1 Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (IN...

5 1 Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD. 2 Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea. 3 Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Inst...

Rebecca E. Petre, Michael P. Quaile, Eric I. Rossman, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Beth A. Bailey, Steven R. Houser, and Kenneth B. Margulies Department of Physiology and the Cardiovascular Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Physiology, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvani...

From *the Health Services Delivery Research Unit, Father Sean O’Sullivan Reserach Centre, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ont.; the departments of †Family Medicine and ‡Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; §Digene Corporation, Silver Spring, Md.; ¶the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University; **the Department of Pathology, Uni...

Staff Physician (RJ), Third Department of Medicine, Cardiology and Emergency Medicine, Wilhelminen Hospital, Vienna, Austria; Professor of Cardiology (KH), Third Department of Medicine, Cardiology and Emergency Medicine, Wilhelminen Hospital, Vienna, Austria; Statistical Consultatnt (KB), Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Biostatistics (I-Biostat), Katholieke Universit...

1 Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, 2 National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA, USA, 3 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and 4 Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ...

Elizabeth S. Klings, Surinder Safaya, Adeboye H. Adewoye, Adam Odhiambo, Garrett Frampton, Marc Lenburg, Norman Gerry, Paola Sebastiani, Martin H. Steinberg, and Harrison W. Farber The Pulmonary Center, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics/Genomics, Boston University School of Medicine, and Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Publi...

LORENTZ JÄNTSCHI, SORANA D. BOLBOACĂ, AND RADU E. SESTRAS 1 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca 400372, Romania; Department of Physics and Chemistry, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca 400641, Romania; and Department of Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, ‘‘Iuliu Hatieganu’’ University of...

1 Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2 Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 3 Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, 4 Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, 5 Energy, Mining and Environment, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, ...