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This paper is the written version of the President's invited lecture speaker at the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics conference in Munich in 2013. The paper takes the stand of clinician and patient who are in need of a reliable prognostic model for the planning of treatment and patient care during the follow‐up after the initial treatment. The paper discusses (i) the need for grouping...
This paper compares the modeling process in the quantile regression and linear regression for the similarities and differences, in the model building, parameter estimation, computer implementation. and specific examples of these four aspects described quantile regression model better than linear regression mode.
This paper is an interpretation and defense of Richard Levins’ “The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology,” which has been extremely influential among biologists since its publication 40 years ago. In this article, Levins confronted some of the deepest philosophical issues surrounding modeling and theory construction. By way of interpretation, I discuss each of Levins’ major philosophical...
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