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Monday, 16 October 2006: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Ballroom A-B (Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
Concurrent Abstracts C: Methodological Advances and Applications: Regression
Session Chairs:Ken Stein, MB, MSc, FFPH
Michael Kattan
4:30 PM*MORTALITY RATES IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: CLINIC AND SELF-REPORT SETTINGS
Kaleb Michaud, MS
4:45 PM*PROPENSITY SCORES IN THE PRESENCE OF EFFECT MODIFICATION
Ylian S. Liem, MD, MSc, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, ScD, John B. Wong, MD, Frank Th. De Charro, PhD, M.G. Myriam Hunink, PhD, MD
5:00 PM*IMPUTATION OF MISSING COVARIATE VALUES IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN DROPPING THE COVARIATE, EVEN WITH MISSING DATA PERCENTAGES OF UP TO 90%
Kristel J.M. Janssen, MSc, A.R.T. Donders, PhD, Y. Vergouwe, PhD, F.E. Harrell, PhD, D.E. Grobbee, K.G.M. Moons
5:15 PM*BAYESIAN NETWORK VERSUS LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL FOR COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER
Jagpreet Chhatwal, MS, Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD, Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD, MS, Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS
5:30 PM*DECISION MAKING BASED ON A POSITIVE ONCOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS TRIAL IN THE CONTEXT OF PRIOR CONFLICTING EVIDENCE: A BAYESIAN RE-ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADJUVANT LUNG TRIAL
Rebecca Miksad, MD, Mithat Gonen, PhD, Thomas Lynch, MD, Thomas Roberts, MD, MPH
5:45 PMTHE RISK OF RISK MODELS: TO EVALUATE THE COMPARABILITY OF THREE RISK MODELS TO PREDICT DIABETES-RELATED COMPLICATIONS AND TREATMENT DECISIONS
Brian T. Denton, PhD, Murat Kurt, MS, Nilay D. Shah, PhD, Sandra C. Bryant, MS, Steven A. Smith, MD

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