Solutions for Quantitative Problems in Cancer Surveillance and Control

In Press

Yu B , Tiwari R, Cronin K, Feuer EJ. Cure fraction estimation from the mixture cure models for grouped survival data. Statistics in Medicine. (In Press)

2004

Jemal A , Tiwari R, Murray T , Ghafoor A , Samuels A , Ward E , Feuer EJ, Thun MJ. Cancer Statistics, 2004. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2004;54:8-29.

Tiwari R, Ghosh K , Jemal A , Hachey M , Ward E , Thun MJ, Feuer EJ. A New Method of Predicting U.S. and State-Level Cancer Mortality Counts for the Current Calendar Year. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2004;54:30-40.

2003

Boer R, Ries LA, van Ballegooijen M, Feuer EJ, Legler JM, Habbema JF. Ambiguities In Calculating Cancer Patient Survival: The SEER Experience for Colorectal and Prostate Cancer. Technical Report # 2003-05, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute 2003 (http://srab.cancer.gov/reports).

MacEachren A, Hardisty F , Dai X , Pickle LW. Supporting visual analysis of federal geospatial statistics. Communications of the ACM 2003;46:63-64.

2002

Clegg L, Feuer EJ, Midthune D, Fay MP, Hankey BF. Impact of reporting delay and reporting error on cancer incidence rates and trends. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002;94(20):1537-45.

Fay MP, Follmann Ds. Designing Monte Carlo implementations of permutation or bootstrap hypothesis tests. American Statistician 2002;56:63-70.

Wang X , Chen JX, Carr DB, Bell S, Pickle LW. Geographic statistics visualization: Web-based linked micromap plots. Computing in Science & Engineering 2002;4:90-94.

Warren J, Brown ML, Fay MP, Schussler N, Potosky AL, Riley GF. Costs of treatment for elderly women with early-stage breast cancer in fee-for-service settings. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2002;20:307-316.

2000

Gamel JW, Weller EA, Wesley MN, Feuer EJ. Parametric cure models of relative and cause-specific survival for grouped survival times. Computer Programs in Biomedicine 2000;61:99-110.

Kim H, Fay MP, Feuer EJ, Midthune D. Permutation test for joinpoint regresssion with application to cancer rates. Statistics in Medicine 2000;19;335-351:(Corr.:2001;20:655).

Klabunde CN, Potosky AL, Legler JM, Warren J. Development of a comorbidity measure using physician claims data. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2000;53:2158-2167.

1999

Etzioni R, Feuer EJ, Sullivan S, Lin DY, Hu C, Ramsey SD. On the use of survival analysis techniques to estimate medical care costs. Journal of Health Economics 1999;18:365-380.

Fay MP. Approximate confidence intervals for rate ratios from directly standardized rates with sparse data. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1999;28:2141-2160.

Weller EA, Feuer EJ, Frey CM, Wesley MN. Parametric relative survival modelling using generalized linear models with application to Hodgkin Lymphoma. Applied Statistics: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society -Series C 1999;48:79-89.

1998

Cronin K, Legler JM, Etzioni R. Assessing uncertainty in microsimulation modeling with application to cancer screening interventions. Statistics in Medicine 1998;17:2509-2523.

Edwards MJ, Gamel JW, Feuer EJ. Improvement in the prognosis of breast cancer from 1965 to 1984. Journal of Clinical Oncology 1998;16:1030-1035.

1997

Fay MP, Feuer EJ. Confidence intervals for directly standardized rates: A method based on the Gamma distribution. Statistics in Medicine 1997;16:791-801.

Fay MP, Feuer EJ. A semi-parametric estimate of extra-poisson variation for vital rates. Statistics in Medicine 1997;16:2398-2401.

Lin DY, Feuer EJ, Etzioni R, Wax Y. Estimating medical costs from incomplete follow-up data. Biometrics 1997;53:419-434.

1996

Black MM, Zachrau RE, Hankey BF, Feuer EJ. Prognostic significance of in situ carcinoma associated with invasive breast carcinoma. Cancer 1996;78:778-788.

Gamel JW, Meyer JS, Feuer EJ, Miller BA. The impact of stage and histology on the long-term clincial course of 163,808 patients with breast carcinoma. Cancer 1996;77:1459-1464.

Riley GF, Feuer EJ, Lubitz JD. Disenrollment of medicare cancer patients from health maintenance organizations. Medical Care 1996;34:826-836.

1994

Frey CM, Feuer EJ, Timmel MJ. Projection of incidence rates to a larger population using ecologic variables. Statistics in Medicine 1994;13:1755-1770.

1993

Gaynor JJ, Feuer EJ, Tan CC, Wu DH, Straus DJ, Clarkson , Brennan MF, Little CR. On the use of cause-specific failure and conditional failure probabilities: Examples from Clinical Oncology and the Stanford Heart Transplant Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1993;88:400-409.

Johnson KA, Pickle LW. Risk of breast cancer in the Nurses` Health Study: Applying the Gail model. Letter to editor. Journal of the American Medical Association 1993;270:2925-2926.

Wun L, Brown CC. An alternative decision rule for quality control in sequential sampling plans. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1993;22(7):2033-2042.

1992

Feuer EJ, Hankey BF, Gaynor JJ, Wesley MN, Baker SG, Meyer JS. Graphical representation of survival curves associated with a binary non-reversible time dependent covariate. Statistics in Medicine 1992;11:455-474.

Frey CM, McMillen MM, Cowan CD, Horm JW, Kessler L. Representativeness of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Data: Recent trends in cancer mortality rates. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1992;84:872-877.

1991

Coughlin SS, Nass CC, Pickle LW, Trock B, Bunin GR. Regression methods for estimating attributable risk in population-based case-control studies: A comparison of additive and multiplicative models. American Journal of Epidemiology 1991;133(3):305-313.

Feuer EJ, Kessler L, Baker SG, Triolo HE, Green DT. The impact of breakthrough clincial trials on survival in population based tumor registries. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1991;44:141-153.

Wun L, Pearl WL. Accessing the statistical characteristics of the mean absolute error of forecasting. Intl J Forecasting 1991;7:335-337.

Wun L. Regression analysis of autocorrelated poisson-distributed data. Communications in Statistics:Theory and Methods 1991;20(10):3083-3091.

1989

Feuer EJ, Kessler L. Test statistic and sample size for a two sample McNemar test. Biometrics 1989;45(3):629-636.

Pickle LW, Johnson K. Estimating the long-term probability of developing breast cancer (Guest editorial). Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1989;81:1854-1855.

1980

Decoufle P, Thomas TL, Pickle LW. Comparison of the proportionate mortality rates and standardized mortality ratio risk measures. American Journal of Epidemiology 1980;111:263-269.

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