Search for dissertations about: "Cohort analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1027 swedish dissertations containing the words Cohort analysis.
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1. Pathway analysis: methods and perspectives
Abstract : The amount of data being generated by high throughput molecular biology experiments grows every day, both in quantity and quality. With this comes the desire to have more powerful and comprehensive methods for statistical analysis that have been developed with the nature of this data in mind. READ MORE
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2. On Carbohydrate Intake and Dental Status in the Elderly
Abstract : People?s dental status has the potential to affect dietary intake and, at the same time, diet may affect the health of the dentition. To study the associations, the elderly appear to be an appropriate group and carbohydrates the appropriate nutrients. READ MORE
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3. Epidemiological aspects of drug-related vitamin D deficiency and osteoporotic fractures
Abstract : Background: Vitamin D deficiency, secondary osteoporosis and low-energy fractures (LEF) as side effects of specific drugs were first described more than half a century ago. These effects are recognized in guidelines where patients prescribed risk drugs are recommended follow-up with testing and supplementation. READ MORE
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4. Correlated random effects models for clustered survival data
Abstract : Frailty models are frequently used to analyse clustered survival data in medical contexts. The frailties, or random effects, are used to model the association between individual survival times within clusters. READ MORE
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5. Proximity Ligation Assays for Disease Biomarkers Analysis
Abstract : One of the pressing needs in the field of disease biomarker discovery is new technologies that could allow high performance protein analysis in different types of clinical material, such as blood and solid tissues. This thesis includes four approaches that address important limitations of current technologies, thus enabling highly sensitive, specific and parallel protein measurements. READ MORE