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Biswas / Datta / Fine

Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences

Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Survival Analysis, and Bioinformatics
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-471-94753-0
Verlag: Wiley

Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Survival Analysis, and Bioinformatics

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 993 g

ISBN: 978-0-471-94753-0
Verlag: Wiley


The Most Comprehensive and Cutting-Edge Guide to Statistical Applications in Biomedical Research

With the increasing use of biotechnology in medical research and the sophisticated advances in computing, it has become essential for practitioners in the biomedical sciences to be fully educated on the role statistics plays in ensuring the accurate analysis of research findings. Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences explores the growing value of statistical knowledge in the management and comprehension of medical research and, more specifically, provides an accessible introduction to the contemporary methodologies used to understand complex problems in the four major areas of modern-day biomedical science: clinical trials, epidemiology, survival analysis, and bioinformatics.

Composed of contributions from eminent researchers in the field, this volume discusses the application of statistical techniques to various aspects of modern medical research and illustrates how these methods ultimately prove to be an indispensable part of proper data collection and analysis. A structural uniformity is maintained across all chapters, each beginning with an introduction that discusses general concepts and the biomedical problem under focus and is followed by specific details on the associated methods, algorithms, and applications. In addition, each chapter provides a summary of the main ideas and offers a concluding remarks section that presents novel ideas, approaches, and challenges for future research.

Complete with detailed references and insight on the future directions of biomedical research, Statistical Advances in the Biomedical Sciences provides vital statistical guidance to practitioners in the biomedical sciences while also introducing statisticians to new, multidisciplinary frontiers of application. This text is an excellent reference for graduate- and PhD-level courses in various areas of biostatistics and the medical sciences and also serves as a valuable tool for medical researchers, statisticians, public health professionals, and biostatisticians.

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Preface xxi

Acknowledgments xxv

Contributors xxvii

Part I Clinical Trials 1

1. Phase I Clinical Trials 3
Anastasis Ivanova and Nancy Flournoy

1.1 Introduction, 3

1.2 Phase I Trials in Healthy Volunteers, 3

1.3 Phase I Trials with Toxic Outcomes Enrolling Patients, 5

1.4 Other Design Problems in Dose Finding, 11

1.5 Concluding Remarks, 12

2. Phase II Clinical Trials 15
Nigel Stallard

2.1 Introduction, 15

2.2 Frequentist Methods in Phase II Clinical Trials, 18

2.3 Bayesian Methods in Phase II Clinical Trials, 22

2.4 Decision-Theoretic Methods in Phase II Clinical Trials, 25

2.5 Analysis of Multiple Endpoints in Phase II Clinical Trials, 26

2.6 Outstanding Issues in Phase II Clinical Trials, 27

3. Response-Adaptive Designs in Phase III Clinical Trials 33
Atanu Biswas, Uttam Bandyopadhyay, and Rahul Bhattacharya

3.1 Introduction, 33

3.2 Adaptive Designs for Binary Treatment Responses, 34

3.3 Adaptive Designs for Binary Treatment Responses Incorporating Covariates, 40

3.4 Adaptive Designs for Categorical Responses, 41

3.5 Adaptive Designs for Continuous Responses, 42

3.6 Optimal Adaptive Designs, 43

3.7 Delayed Responses in Adaptive Designs, 44

3.8 Biased Coin Designs, 45

3.9 Real Adaptive Clinical Trials, 45

3.10 Data Study for Different Adaptive Schemes, 46

3.11 Concluding Remarks, 49

4. Inverse Sampling for Clinical Trials: A Brief Review of Theory and Practice 55
Atanu Biswas and Uttam Bandyopadhyay

4.1 Introduction, 55

4.2 Two-Sample Randomized Inverse Sampling for Clinical Trials, 59

4.3 An Example of Inverse Sampling: Boston ECMO, 62

4.4 Inverse Sampling in Adaptive Designs, 62

4.5 Concluding Remarks, 63

5. The Design and Analysis Aspects of Cluster Randomized Trials 67
Hrishikesh Chakraborty

5.1 Introduction: Cluster Randomized Trials, 67

5.2 Intracluster Correlation Coefficient and Confidence Interval, 69

5.3 Sample Size Calculation for Cluster Randomized Trials, 71

5.4 Analysis of Cluster Randomized Trial Data, 73

5.5 Concluding Remarks, 75

Part II Epidemiology 81

6. HIV Dynamics Modeling and Prediction of Clinical Outcomes in AIDS Clinical Research 83
Yangxin Huang and Hulin Wu

6.1 Introduction, 83

6.2 HIV Dynamic Model and Treatment Effect Models, 84

6.3 Statistical Methods for Predictions of Clinical Outcomes, 87

6.4 Simulation Study, 90

6.5 Clinical Data Analysis, 91

6.6 Concluding remarks, 92

7. Spatial Epidemiology 97
Lance A. Waller

7.1 Space and Disease, 97

7.2 Basic Spatial Questions and Related Data, 98

7.3 Quantifying Pattern in Point Data, 99

7.4 Predicting Spatial Observations, 107

7.5 Concluding Remarks, 118

8. Modeling Disease Dynamics: Cholera as a Case Study 123
Edward L. Ionides, Carles Bretó, and Aaron A. King

8.1 Introduction, 123

8.2 Data Analysis via Population Models, 124

8.3 Sequential Monte Carlo, 126

8.4 Modeling Cholera, 130

8.5 Concluding Remarks, 136

9. Misclassification and Measurement Error Models in Epidemiologic Studies 141
Surupa Roy and Tathagata Banerjee

9.1 Introduction, 141

9.2 A Few Examples, 143

9.3 Binary Regression Models with Two Types of Error, 144

9.4 Bivariate Binary Regression Models with Two Types of Error, 146

9.5 Models for Analyzing Mixed Misclassified Binary and Continuous Responses, 149

9.6 Atom Bomb Data Analysis, 151

9.7 Concluding Remarks, 152

Part III Survival Analysis 157

10. Semiparametric Maximum-Likelihood Inference in Survival Analysis 159
Michael R. Kosorok

10.1 Introduction, 159

10.2 Examples of Survival Models, 160

10.3 Basic Estimation and Limit Theory, 162

10.4 The Bootstrap, 163

10.5 The Profile Sampler, 166

10.6 The Piggyback Bootstrap, 168

10.7 Other Approaches, 170

10.8 Concluding Remarks, 171

11. An Overview of the Semi–Competing Risks Problem 177
Limin Peng, Hongyu Jiang, Rick J. Chappell, and Jason P. Fine

11.1 Introduction, 177

11.2 Nonparametric Inferences, 179

11.3 Semiparametric One-Sample Inference, 181

11.4 Semiparametric Regression Method, 184

11.5 Concluding Remarks, 189

12. Tests for Time-Varying Covariate Effects within Aalen’s Additive Hazards Model 193
Torben Martinussen and Thomas H. Scheike

12.1 Introduction, 193

12.2 Model Specification and Inferential Procedures, 194

12.3 Numerical Results, 199

12.4 Concluding Remarks, 204

12.5 Summary, 204

Appendix 12A, 205

13. Analysis of Outcomes Subject to Induced Dependent Censoring: A Marked Point Process Perspective 209
Yijian Huang

13.1 Introduction, 209

13.2 Induced Dependent Censoring and Associated Identifiability Issues, 210

13.3 Marked Point Process, 212

13.4 Modeling Strategy for Testing and Regression, 215

13.5 Concluding Remarks, 218

14. Analysis of Dependence in Multivariate Failure-Time Data 221
li Hsu and Zoe Moodie

14.1 Introduction, 221

14.2 Nonparametric Bivariate Survivor Function Estimation, 223

14.3 Non- and Semiparametric Estimation of Dependence Measures, 230

14.4 Concluding Remarks, 239

15. Robust Estimation for Analyzing Recurrent-Event Data in the Presence of Terminal Events 245
Rajeshwari Sundaram

15.1 Introduction, 245

15.2 Inference Procedures, 247

15.3 Large-Sample Properties, 249

15.4 Numerical Results, 252

15.5 Concluding Remarks, 259

Appendix 15A, 260

16. Tree-Based Methods for Survival Data 265
Mousumi Banerjee and Anne-Michelle Noone

16.1 Introduction, 265

16.2 Review of CART, 266

16.3 Trees for Survival Data, 268

16.4 Simulations for Comparison of Different Splitting Methods, 272

16.5 Example: Breast Cancer Prognostic Study, 274

16.6 Random Forest for Survival Data, 278

16.7 Concluding Remarks, 281

17. Bayesian Estimation of the Hazard Function with Randomly Right-Censored Data 287
Jean-François Angers and Brenda MacGibbon

17.1 Introduction, 287

17.2 Bayesian Functional Model Using Monotone Wavelet Approximation, 292

17.3 Estimation of the Subdensity F*, 295

17.4 Simulations, 296

17.5 Examples, 298

17.6 Concluding Remarks, 300

Appendix 17A, 301

Part IV Bioinformatics 307

18. The Effects of Intergene Associations on Statistical Inferences from Microarray Data 309
Kerby Shedden

18.1 Introduction, 309

18.2 Intergene Correlation, 310

18.3 Differential Expression, 314

18.4 Timecourse Experiments, 315

18.5 Meta-Analysis, 319

18.6 Concluding Remarks, 321

19. A Comparison of Methods for Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Data 325
Hyungwon Choi and Debashis Ghosh

19.1 Introduction, 325

19.2 Background, 326

19.3 Example, 328

19.4 Cross-Comparison of Gene Signatures, 329

19.5 Best Common Mean Difference Method, 329

19.6 Effect Size Method, 331

19.7 POE Assimilation Method, 332

19.8 Comparison of Three Methods, 334

19.9 Conclusions, 336

20. Statistical Methods for Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes in Replicated Microarray Experiments: A Review 341
Lynn kuo, Fang Yu, and Yifang Zhao

20.1 Introduction, 341

20.2 Normalization, 344

20.3 Methods for Selecting Differentially Expressed Genes, 349

20.4 Simulation Study, 357

20.5 Concluding Remarks, 360

21. Clustering of Microarray Data via Mixture Models 365
Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Richard W. Bean, and Angus Ng

21.1 Introduction, 365

21.2 Clustering of Microarray Data, 367

21.3 Notation, 367

21.4 Clustering of Tissue Samples, 369

21.5 The EMMIX-GENE Clustering Procedure, 370

21.6 Clustering of Gene Profiles, 372

21.7 Emmix-wire, 373

21.8 Maximum-Likelihood Estimation via the EM Algorithm, 374

21.9 Model Selection, 376

21.10 Example: Clustering of Timecourse Data, 377

21.11 Concluding Remarks, 379

22. Censored Data Regression in High-Dimensional and Low-Sample-Size Settings for Genomic Applications 385
Hongzhe li

22.1 Introduction, 385

22.2 Censored Data Regression Models, 386

22.3 Regularized Estimation for Censored Data Regression Models, 388

22.4 Survival Ensemble Methods, 394

22.5 Nonparametric-Pathway-Based Regression Models, 395

22.6 Dimension-Reduction-Based Methods and Bayesian Variable Selection Methods, 396

22.7 Criteria for Evaluating Different Procedures, 397

22.8 Application to a Real Dataset and Comparisons, 397

22.9 Discussion and Future Research Topics, 398

22.10 Concluding Remarks, 400

23. Analysis of Case–Control Studies in Genetic Epidemiology 405
Nilanjan Chatterjee

23.1 Introduction, 405

23.2 Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of Case–Control Data with Complete Information, 406

23.3 Haplotype-based Genetic Analysis with Missing Phase Information, 410

23.4 Concluding Remarks, 415

24. Assessing Network Structure in the Presence of Measurement Error 419
Denise Scholtens, Raji Balasubramanian, and Robert Gentleman

24.1 Introduction, 419

24.2 Graphs of Biological Data, 420

24.3 Statistics on Graphs, 421

24.4 Graph-Theoretic Models, 422

24.5 Types of Measurement Error, 425

24.6 Exploratory Data Analysis, 426

24.7 Influence of Measurement Error on Graph Statistics, 429

24.8 Biological Implications, 436

24.9 Conclusions, 439

25. Prediction of RNA Splicing Signals 443
Mark R. Segal

25.1 Introduction, 443

25.2 Existing Approaches to Splice Site Identification, 445

25.3 Splice Site Recognition via Contemporary Classifiers, 450

25.4 Results, 455

25.5 Concluding Remarks, 459

26. Statistical Methods for Biomarker Discovery Using Mass Spectrometry 465
Bradley M. Broom and Kim-Anh Do

26.1. Introduction, 465

26.2 Biomarker Discovery, 470

26.3 Statistical Methods for Preprocessing, 470

26.4 Statistical Methods for Multiple Testing, Classification, and Applications, 473

26.5 Potential Statistical Developments, 481

26.6 Concluding Remarks, 483

27. Genetic Mapping of Quantitative Traits: Model-Free Sib-Pair Linkage Approaches 487
Saurabh Ghosh and Partha P. Majumder

27.1 Introduction, 487

27.2 The Basic QTL Framework For Sib-Pairs, 488

27.3 The Haseman–Elston Regression Framework, 489

27.4 Nonparametric Alternatives, 489

27.5 The Modified Nonparametric Regression, 490

27.6 Comparison With Linear Regression Methods, 492

27.7 Significance Levels and Empirical Power, 493

27.8 An Application to Real Data, 495

27.9 Concluding Remarks, 496

Part V Miscellaneous Topics 499

28. Robustness Issues in Biomedical Studies 501
Ayanendranath Basu

28.1 Introduction: The Need for Robust Procedures, 501

28.2 Standard Tools for Robustness, 502

28.3 The Robustness Question in Biomedical Studies, 506

28.4 Robust Estimation in the Logistic Regression Model, 508

28.5 Robust Estimation for Censored Survival Data, 513

28.6 Adaptive Robust Methods in Clinical Trials, 518

28.7 Concluding Remarks, 521

29. Recent Advances in the Analysis of Episodic Hormone Data 527
Timothy D. Johnson and Yuedong Wang

29.1 Introduction, 527

29.2 A General Biophysical Model, 530

29.3 Bayesian deconvolution model (BDM), 531

29.4 Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Partial-Splines Models, 537

29.5 Concluding Remarks, 542

30. Models for Carcinogenesis 547
Anup Dewanji

30.1 Introduction, 547

30.2 Statistical Models, 549

30.3 Multistage Models, 552

30.4 Two-Stage Clonal Expansion Model, 555

30.5 Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models, 560

30.6 Statistical Methods, 562

30.7 Concluding Remarks, 564

Index 569


Atanu Biswas, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Applied Statistics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in India. Dr. Biswas has authored more than eighty published articles and also serves as Associate Editor of several journals, including Sequential Analysis and Communications in Statistics. He is the recipient of the M.N. Murthy Award for his research in applied statistics. Sujay Datta, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Northern Michigan University and Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics at TexasA&M University, where he is part of a bioinformatics research program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Datta's research interests include high-throughput data, genomics, and models based on graphs/networks. Jason P. Fine, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also serves as Associate Editor of several journals, including Biometrics, Biostatistics, and the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. Mark R. Segal, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Segal has published extensively and currently focuses his research in the area of bioinformatics.



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