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USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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2017

Survival analysis

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Statistical Analysis And Modeling Of Stomach Cancer Data, Chao Gao Nov 2017

Statistical Analysis And Modeling Of Stomach Cancer Data, Chao Gao

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this study is to address some important questions associated with stomach cancer patients using the data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program of the United States. To better understand the behavior of stomach cancer, we first perform parametric analysis for each patient group (white male, white female, African American male, African American female, other male and female) to identify the probability distribution function which can best characterize the behavior of the malignant stomach tumor sizes. We evaluate the effects of patients’ age, gender and race on the malignant stomach tumor sizes by developing quantile …


Statistical Analysis And Modeling Of Ovarian And Breast Cancer, Muditha V. Devamitta Perera Sep 2017

Statistical Analysis And Modeling Of Ovarian And Breast Cancer, Muditha V. Devamitta Perera

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The objective of the present study is to investigate key aspects of ovarian and breast cancers, which are two main causes of mortality among women. Identification of the true behavior of survivorship and influential risk factors is essential in designing treatment protocols, increasing disease awareness and preventing possible causes of disease. There is a commonly held belief that African Americans have a higher risk of cancer mortality. We studied racial disparities of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer on overall and disease-free survival and found out that there is no significant difference in the survival experience among the three races: Whites, …