background: the aim of this study is to evaluate the association between different treatments and survival time of breast cancer patients using either standard cox model or stratified cox model. methods: the study was conducted on 15830 women diagnosed with breast cancer in british columbia, canada.  they were divided into eight groups according to patients’ ages and stage of disease either cox...

conclusions the present study detected more accurate results for ann method compared to those of cox ph model to analyze the survival of patients with liver transplantation. furthermore, the order of effective factors in patients’ survival after transplantation was clinically more acceptable. the large dataset with a few missing data was the advantage of this study, the fact which makes the res...

background: the incidence of restenosis in patients suffering from coronary artery disease after undergoing angioplasty is of paramount importance. accordingly, this study aimed to investigate factors affecting the time of the first incidence of restenosis in patients undergone angioplasty in the city of zanjan, iran.   methods: this retrospective cohort study was conducted on 421 patients who ...

PURPOSE To compare adjusted effects of drug treatment for hypertension on the risk of stroke from propensity score (PS) methods with a multivariable Cox proportional hazards (Cox PH) regression in an observational study with censored data. METHODS From two prospective population-based cohort studies in The Netherlands a selection of subjects was used who either received drug treatment for hyp...

original article   extended exposure to noise can cause permanent hearing damage. this study aimed to determine the incidence time of hearing loss and its effective factors in workers exposed to noise. this retrospective cohort study, was conducted on a total of 273 workers in various sectors of kerman copper by-industries co. their hearing status and the incidence of hearing loss (hearing thre...

Point processes in time have a wide range of applications that include the claims arrival process insurance or analysis queues operations research. Due to advances technology, such samples point are increasingly encountered. A key object interest is local intensity function. It has straightforward interpretation allows understand and explore data. We consider functional approaches for processes...