Background: Microsimulation models (MSMs), belonging to a class of statistical models that perform simulations at the level of individual units, often persons, have been used …
Background. Rituximab-based immunochemotherapy for Waldenström macroglobulinemia / lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (WM/LPL) showed high response rates in single-arm trials, but comparative data are lacking. We compared overall …
Probabilistic record linkage is a process to identify records in two separate datasets that represent the same entity in the absence of unique identifiers. Bayesian …
The objective of this dissertation is to develop methods for statistical record linkage that are more robust when identifying information is limited or recorded with …