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CONTENTS Volume 15, Issue Nos. 1-8 STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Issue No. 1, 15 January 1996 Formulae and Tables for the Determination of Sample Sizes and Power in Clinical Trials for Testing Differences in Proportions for the Two-sample Design: A Review H. Sahai and A. Khurshid Modeling Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes, and Diet-disease Awareness: The Case of Dietary Fiber J. N. Variyam, J. Blaylock and D. M. Smallwood A Tree-based Method of Analysis for Prospective Studies H. Zhang, T. Holford and M. B. Bracken The Homogenetic Estimate for the Variance of Survival Rate G. Zhao Polynomials with Asymptotes for Longitudinal Data R. H. Jones Statistical Analysis of Zidovudine (AZT) Effect on CD4 Cell Counts in HIV Disease A. J. McNeil and S. M. Gore Estimation of Expected Quality Adjusted Survival by Cross-sectional Survey J.-S. Hwang, J.-Y. Tsauo and J.-D. Wang Practical p-Value Adjustment for Optimally Selected Cutpoints S. G. Hilsenbeck and G. M. Clark LETTER TO THE EDITOR Issue No. 2, 30 January 1996 Robust Procedures for Analyzing a Two-period Cross-over Design with Baseline Measurements K. T. Tsai and H. I. Patel The Analysis of Incomplete Data in the Three-period Two-treatment Cross-over Design for Clinical Trials B. A. Richardson and V. F. Flack Associations of Types of Lens Opacities Between and Within Eyes of Individuals: An Application of Second-order Generalized Estimating Equations M. J. Podgor, R. Hiller and the Framingham Eye Studies Group Indexed or abstracted by ‘BIOMED Database Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)’, ‘BIOSIS’, ‘Biostatistics’, ‘CAB Abstracts’, ‘Cambridge Scientific Abstracts’, ‘Chronic Diseases in Canada’, ‘Compumath Citation Index (ISI)’, ‘Current Awareness in Biological Sciences’, ‘Current Contents (CC)/Clinical Medicine’, ‘CC/Life Sciences’, “Current index to Statistics’, “Engineering in Medicine and Biology’, ‘Excerpta Medica’, ‘Leprosy Research Foundation’, ‘Operations h/M ‘Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology’, ‘Quality Control and Applied Statistics’, ‘Research Alert (ISI)’, "SCISEARCH Database sh’, ‘Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts’. VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 1-8 An Empirical Comparison of Expert-derived and Data-derived Classification Trees M. Chiogna, D. J. Spiegelhalter, R. C. G. Franklin and K. Bull Confidence Intervals for Median Survival Times Under a Piecewise Exponential Model With Proportional Hazards Covariate Effects T. Karrison Assessment of Small Health Risks Based on Exact Sample Sizes K. Abt and A. Giilich Characterization of HIV Incubation Distributions and Some Comparative Studies W.-Y. Tan, S. R. Lee and S. C. Tang The Shape of the Distribution of the Number of Sexual Partners D. Kault BOOK REVIEW John Ashton, The Epidemiological Imagination. A Reader. Issue No. 3, 15 February 1996 Global Tests for Combination Drug Studies in Factorial Trials H. M. Hung Statistical Reporting of Clinical Trials with Individual Changes from Allocated Treatment I. R. White and S. J. Pocock Randomized and Non-randomized Patients in Clinical Trials: Experiences with Comprehensive Cohort Studies C. Schmoor, M. Olschewski and M. Schumacher Autoregressive Age—Period—Cohort Models W. C. Lee and R. S. Lin Interval Censored Survival Data: A Generalised Linear Modelling Approach C. P. Farrington Measurement Error Models for Ordinal Exposure Variables Measured with Error B. A. Rosner Reporting Delay: A Review with a Simulation Study and Application to Spanish AIDS Data C. Sanchez Sellero, E. Vazquez Fernandez, W. Gonzdlez-Manteiga, X. L. Otero, X. Hervada, E. Fernéndez and X. A. Taboada A Generalized Linear Model for Analysing Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves P. J. Smith, T. J. Thompson, M. E. Engelgau and W. H. Herman CORRECTIONS S. D. Walter BOOK REVIEWS Alain Spriet, Thérése Dupin-Spriet and Pierre Simon, translated by Robert Coluzzi, John Young, Richard Edelstein and Michael Weintraub, Methodology of Clinical Drug Trials. David G. Kleinbaum, Logistic Regression. A Self-learning Text. R. F. Burton, Physiology by Numbers. An Encouragement to Quantitative Thinking. VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 1-8 Issue No. 4, 28 February 1996 EDITORIAL TUTORIALS IN BIOSTATISTICS Designing Studies for Dose Response W. K. Wong and P. A. Lachenbruch Multivariable Prognostic Models: Issues in Developing Models, Evaluating Assumptions and Adequacy, and Measuring and Reducing Errors F. E. Harrell, Jr., K. L. Lee and D. B. Mark Statistical Approaches to Human Brain Mapping by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging N. Lange Non-parametric Two-sample Tests for Repeated Ordinal Responses M. P. Fay and C. Gennings A Model for Cross-over Trials Evaluating Therapeutic Preferences J. K. Lindsey and B. Jones Issue No. 5, 15 March 1996 The Incidence of Cystic Fibrosis M. R. Kosorok, W.-H. Wei and P. M. Farrell Bayesian Imputation of Predictive Values When Covariate Information is Available and Gold Standard Diagnosis is Unavailable L. D. Epstein, A. Mufioz and D. He Robustness and Power of Analysis of Covariance Applied to Data Distorted from Normality by Floor Effects: Homogeneous Regression Slopes L. M. Sullivan and R. B. D’Agostino Assessment of HIV Testing Rates Among HIV Infected Individuals Using Incidence Data on HIV and AIDS Diagnoses I. C. Marschner Historical HIV Incidence Modelling in Regional Subgroups: Use of Flexible Discrete Models with Penalized Splines Based on Prior Curves S. Greenland Analysis of Cross-over Trials for Duration Data J. K. Lindsey, B. Jones and J. A. Lewis Viii VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 1-8 Multiple-outcome Meta-analysis of Clinical Trials C. S. Berkey, J. J. Anderson and D. C. Hoaglin STATISTICS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE: 2 BOOK REVIEWS Phillip J. Brown, Measurement, Regression and Calibration. H. O. Lancaster, Quantitative Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences: A Historical Essay. Edward H. Kaplan and Margaret L. Brandeau (Eds), Modeling the AIDS Epidemic: Planning, Policy and Prediction. Issue No. 6, 30 March 1996 A Model for the Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Lung Cancer Incidence in Connecticut T. R. Holford, Z. Zhang, T. Zheng and L. A. McKay Misclassification of Smoking Habits as a Source of Bias in the Study of Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer P. N. Lee and B. A. Forey Some Techniques for the Analysis of Work Sampling Data M. E. Miller, M. K. James, C. D. Langefeld, M. A. Espeland, J. A. Freedman, D. K. Martin and D. M. Smith A Likelihood Approach to Meta-analysis with Random Effects R. J. Hardy and S. G. Thompson The Appropriateness of the Wilcoxon Test in Ordinal Data J. F. Hilton An Asymptotic Test for the Equality of Coefficients of Variation from k Populations C. J. Feltz and G. E. Miller The Impact of Patient Compliance on Drug Concentration Profile in Multiple Doses W. Wang, F. Husan and S.-C. Chow Sample Size for the Exact Conditional Test Under Inverse Sampling K. J. Lui BOOK REVIEW M. P. Coleman, J. Esteve, P. Damiecki, A. Arslan and H. Renard, Trends in Cancer Incidence and Mortality. VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 1-8 Issue Nos 7/8/9, 15 April-15 May 1996 Preface APPLIED STUDIES The Four County Study of Childhood Cancer: Clusters in Context P. Reynolds, D. F. Smith, E. Satariano, D. O. Nelson, L. R. Goldman and R. R. Neutra Investigating Increased Incidence of Events in the Islands: A Hawaii Department of Health Perspective G. Maskarinec Childhood Leukaemia in Sweden: Using GIS and a Spatial Scan Statistic for Cluster Detection U. Hjalmars, M. Kulldorff, G. Gustafsson and N. Nagarwalla Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Birth Defect Rates in an Urban Population G. Rushton and P. Lolonis Surveillance of Clustering Near Point Sources N. D. Le, A. J. Petkau and R. Rosychuk Cluster Analysis with Constraints: Its Use with Breast Cancer Mortality Rates in Argentina D. Wojdyla, L. Poletto, C. Cuesta, C. Badler and M. E. Passamoniti Spatial and Temporal Clustering of an Occupational Poisoning: The Example of Green Tobacco Sickness R. H. McKnight, R. J. Kryscio, J. R. Mays and G. C. Rodgers, Jr. A Potential Risk of Cancer in a Central Laboratory B. Modan, Z. Blumstein, O. Luxenburg, I. Novikov and J. Shemer POWER COMPARISONS Statistical Power and Design of Focused Clustering Studies L. A. Waller Realistic Power Simulations Compare Point- and Area-based Disease Cluster Tests N. Oden, G. Jacquez and R. Grimson METHODS Exploratory Analysis as a Sequel to Suspected Increased Rate of Cancer in a Small Residential or Workplace Community Cluster Analysis by Testing the Statistical Hypothesis of Uniformity V. Saferis and L. A. Vilkauskas A Longitudinal Study of Emergency Room Visits and Air Pollution for Prince George, British Columbia B. Jorgensen, S. Lundbye-Christensen, X.-K. Song and L. Sun A Random Graph Model for the Final-size Distribution of Household Infections M. N. Islam, C. D. O’Shaughnessy and B. Smith VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 1-8 A Scan Statistic with a Variable Window N. Nagarwalla Disease Clusters in Structured Environments R. C. Grimson and N. Oden Disease Cluster Statistics for Imprecise Space-time Locations G. M. Jacquez : The Spatial Autocorrelation Coefficient Moran’s J under Heteroscedasticity T. Waldhor Localization of Disease Clusters Using Regional Measures of Spatial Autocorrelation R. L. Munasinghe and R. D. Morris An Introduction to Smoothing Incidence Rates by Penalized Likelihood R. G. Downer Covariate Adjusted Mixture Models and Disease Mapping with the Program DismapWin P. Schlattmann, E. Dietz and D. B6hning RESOURCES The Computer Package DismapWin P. Schlattmann Sorting Variables for Each Case: A New Algorithm to Calculate Injury Severity Score (ISS) using SPSS-PC S. Linn Quadrat Analysis Software for the Detection of Spatial or Temporal Clustering A. G. Skeleton CLUSTER: A Software System for Epidemiologic Cluster Analysis H. I. Hall, C. V. Lee and W. E. Kaye Statistical Software for the Clustering of Health Events G. M. Jacquez Contents of Volume 15, Issues 1-8 CONTENTS Volume 15, Issue Nos. 10-16 STATISTICS IN MEDICINE Issue No. 10, 30 May 1996 Cross-over Trials with Censored Data M. Feingold and B. W. Gillespie Regret Graphs, Diagnostic Uncertainty, and Youden’s Index J. Hilden and P. Glasziou Testing for Adverse Reactions Using Prescription Event Monitoring J. E. Andrew, P. Prescott, T. M. F. Smith, W. H. W. Inman and K. Kubota Modelling Lymphocytic Leukaemia Incidence in England and Wales Using Generalizations of the Two-mutation Model of Carcinogenesis of Moolgavkar, Venzon and Knudson M. P. Little, C. R. Muirhead and C. A. Stiller A Functional Decline Model for Prevalent Cohort Data S. Liu, W.-Y. Tsai and Y. Stern A Robust Method for Proportional Hazards Regression C. E. Minder and T. Bednarski Power Calculation for a Score Test in the Dependent Censoring Model S.-Y. Lee On the Distribution of the Unpaired ¢-Statistic with Paired Data M. A. Proschan LETTER TO THE EDITOR BOOK REVIEW A. Bowling, Measuring Disease: A Review of Disease-specific Quality of Life Measurement Scales Issue No. 11, 15 June 1996 On Design Considerations and Randomization-based Inference for Community Intervention Trials M. H. Gail, S. D. Mark, R. J. Carroll, S. B. Green and D. Pee Robust Bayesian Approaches for Clinical Trial Monitoring B. P. Carlin and D. J. Sargent Indexed or abstracted by ‘BIOMED Database Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)’, ‘BIOSIS’, ‘Biostatistics’, ‘CAB Abstracts’, ‘Cambridge Scientific Abstracts’, ‘Chronic Diseases in Canada’, ‘Compumath Citation Index (ISI)’, ‘Current Awareness in Biological Sciences’, ‘Current Contents (CC)/Clinical Medicine’, ‘CC/Life Sciences’, ‘Current Index to Statistics’, “Engineering in Medicine and Biology’, ‘Excerpta Medica’, ‘Leprosy Research Foundation’, ‘Operations Research/Management Science’, ‘Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology’, ‘Quality Control and Applied Statistics’, ‘Research Alert (ISI)’, ‘SCISEARCH Database (ISI)’, ‘Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts’. vi VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 10-16 Control of Familywise Errors in Multiple Endpoint Assessments via Stepwise Permutation 1107 Tests R. C. Blair, J. F. Troendle and R. W. Beck Effects of Dropouts in a Longitudinal Study: An Application of a Repeated Ordinal Model 1123 E. Lesaffre, G. Molenberghs and L. Dewulf A Comparative Study of Four Methods for Analyzing Repeated Measures Data 1143 O. Manor and J. D. Kark Simulation Study of Hierarchical Regression 1161 J. S. Witte and S. Greenland A Bivariate Parametric Model for Survival and Intermediate Event Times 1171 L. D. Epstein and A. Munoz Two Sample Comparison for Large Groups of Correlated Binary Responses 1187 E. W. Lee A Measure of Association for Assessing Prediction Accuracy That is a Generalization of 1199 Non-parametric ROC Area W. D. Smith, R. C. Dutton and N. T. Smith Global Tests for Analysis of Multiple Tumor Data from Animal Carcinogenicity 1217 Experiments J. J. Chen LETTER TO THE EDITOR 1227 1231 BOOK REVIEW P. J. Diggle, K.-Y. Liang and S. L. Zeger, Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Issue No. 12, 30 June 1996 Conference on Meta-Analysis in the Design and Monitoring of Clinical Trials Guest Editor: Y. J. Lee Preface 1233 List of Participants 1235 Meta-Analysis in the Design and Monitoring of Clinical Trials 1237 R. DerSimonian Discussion 1249 Meta-Analysis: Current Issues in Research Synthesis 1253 I. Olkin Discussion 1259 Changes in Clinical Trials Mandated by the Advent of Meta-Analysis 1263 T. C. Chalmers and J. Lau Discussion 1269 Meta-Analysis and Meta-Analytic Monitoring of Clinical Trials 1273 A. R. Feinstein VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 10--16 Vii Discussion 1281 The Role of External Evidence in Data Monitoring of a Clinical Trial 1285 S. J. Pocock Discussion 1295 The Role of Meta-Analysis in Monitoring Clinical Trials 1299 C. B. Begg Discussion 1307 Role of Meta-Analyses in Design and Monitoring of Randomized Clinical Trials: 1313 Summary of First Day of the Workshop N. L. Geller Concluding Discussion 1317 Issue No. 13, 15 July 1996 Estimating the Surface Area of the Human Body 1325 B. Bailey A Technique for Measuring Epidemiologically Useful Features of Birthweight 1333 Distributions D. M. Umbach and A. J. Wilcox Classifying Visual Field Data 1349 S. Hilton, J. Katz and S. Zeger Mixture Models for Eye-tracking Data: A Case Study 1365 D. K. Pauler, M. D. Escobar, J. A. Sweeney andJ . Greenhouse How Independent are Multiple ‘Independent’ Diagnostic Classifications? 1377 H. Brenner A Non-parametric Test for Interval-censored Failure Time Data with Application to AIDS 1387 Studies J. Sun Analysis of Mortality Rates via Marginal Extended Quasi-likelihood 1397 W.-S Lu and R. K. Tsutakawa Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Kappa Coefficient from Bivariate Logistic 1409 Regression M. M. Shoukri and I. U. H. Mian An Index for Assessing Blindness in a Multi-centre Clinical Trial: Disulfiram for Alcohol 1421 Cessation—A VA Cooperative Study K. E. James, D. A. Bloch, K. K. Lee, H. C. Kraemer and R. K. Fuller Vili VOLUME CONTENTS ISSUES 10-16 Modelling and Design of Cross-over Trials B. Jones and A. N. Donev Estimating Confidence Intervals for Cost-effectiveness Ratios: An Example from a Randomized Trial M. A. Chaudhary and S. C. Stearns BOOK REVIEWS T. C. Timmreck, An Introduction to Epidemiology. D. Clayton and M. Hills, Statistical Models in Epidemiology. M. Davidian and D. M. Giltiman, Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data. ARME-P, Methodological Approaches in Pharmacoepidemiology—Application to Spontaneous Reporting Issue No. 14, 30 July 1996 Simple Robust Procedures for Combining Risk Differences in Sets of 2 x 2 Tables J. D. Emerson, D. C. Hoaglin and F. Mosteller Testing for Individual and Population Equivalence Based on the Proportion of Similar Responses D. M. Rom and E. Hwang A Global Odds Ratio Regression Model for Bivariate Ordered Categorical Data from Ophthalmologic Studies J. Williamson and K. Kim Model-Based Estimation of the Excess Fraction (Attributable Fraction): Day Care and Middle Ear Infection H. Oja, O. P. Alho and E. Laara Confidence Intervals for the Excess Risk in Case-Control Studies V. Siskind Assessment of Postpartum Time-Dependent Disease Risk in Case-Control Studies: An Application for Examining Age-Specific Effect Estimates C. Hsieh and S. Lan The Effects of Misclassification of the Actual Cause of Death in Competing Risks Analysis N. Ebrahimi Analysis of Serological Surveys using Mixture Models: Application to a Survey of Parvovirus B19 N. J. Gay The Use of the “‘Bi-Normal” Model for Parametric ROC Analysis of Quantitative Diagnostic Tests J. A. Hanley