07/06/2019 - A review and recent progress in modeling the cure fraction in analysis of survival data - Palestrante: Vera Lucia Damasceno Tomazella (UFSCar)

SEMINÁRIO CONJUNTO UFSCAR/USP

Data e Horário:
07/06/2019 às 14h

Local:
Sala 43 do DEs-UFSCar

Título:
A review and recent progress in modeling the cure fraction in analysis of survival data

Palestrante:
Profa. Dra. Vera Lucia Damasceno Tomazella

Resumo:
In medicine and public health researches, survival cure models are widely used to analyse time-to-event data in which some subjects are reasonably believed to be medically cured. These class of models, referred to as cure rate models basically focus on the proportion of patients who survive for a long period of time following disease. The cure fraction is of interest to patients and a useful measure to monitor trends and differences in survival of curable disease. In this presentation we discuss some methods for modeling cure rate in particular the Defective models. Defective models have the advantage of modeling the proportion of cured without adding any extra parameters in the model, in contrast to the most models from the literature.