John P. Klein

Risk factors for non-fatal myocardial infarction and cardiac death in incident dialysis patients (2009)

Trivedi, Hariprasad, Xiang, Qun, Klein, John P.

Background. The risks of major cardiac events in patients initiating long-term dialysis related to prior coronary disease and various other factors are not well known. Methods. We used United States...

A SAS Macro For Estimation Of Direct Adjusted Survival Curves Based On A Stratified Cox Regression Model (2008)

Xu Zhang, Fausto R. Loberiza, John P. Klein, Mei-jie Zhang, Xu Zhang

Abstract. Often in biomedical research the aim of a study is to compare the outcomes of several treatment arms while adjusting for multiple clinical prognostic factors. In this paper we focus on...

MODELING MULTISTATE SURVIVAL ILLUSTRATED IN (2007)

Ph. D, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Bone Marrow Transplantation, John P. Klein, John P. Klein, Chunlin Qian

In many applications of survival analysis techniques there are intermediate events whose occurrence may effect a patient's prognosis. The occurrence of these intermediate events can be modeled...

MODELING COVARIATE ADJUSTED MORTALITY RELATIVE TO A STANDARD POPULATION: DOES BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION PROVIDE A CURE? (2007)

Per Kragh Andersen, Per Kragh Andersen, Mary M. Horowitz, Mary M. Horowitz, John P. Klein, John P. Klein, ...

A study of long term survival of 1,487 patients given an allogenic bone marrow transplant for acute myelogenous leukemia and 729 patients given a transplant for severe aplastic anemia was conducted...

A SAS Macro For The Positive Stable Frailty Model (2007)

Youyi Shu, John P. Klein

: A SAS macro to extend the Cox proportional hazards regression model to allow for positive stable frailties is presented. This macro computes, using a modied EM algorithm, estimates of the model...

Determining When One Treatment is Di erent From Another Based On A Censored Data Regression Model (2007)

John P. Klein, Mei-jie Zhang

Often when comparing the survival rates of individuals given either of two treatments the analysis stops with a test of the hypothesis of no treatment di erence and perhaps a plot of the two survival...

A SAS MACRO FOR THE ADDITIVE HAZARDS REGRESSION MODEL (2007)

Alicia M. Howell, John P. Klein

Regression models for survival data have traditionally been based on a proportional hazards model. The effect of the covariates on survival is to act multiplicatively on some unknown baseline hazard...

SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOSTATISTICS (2007)

John P. Klein

Many applications in biostatistics involve the modeling of lifetime data. In these applications the outcome of interest is the time T,until some event occurs. This eventmay be death, the appearance...

Confidence Regions For The Equality Of Two Survival Curves (2007)

Ph. D, John P. Klein, John P. Klein, Mei-jie Zhang

Often when comparing the survival rates of individuals given either of two treatments the analysis stops with a test of the hypothesis of no treatment difference and perhaps a plot of the two...

Analysis of Survival Data: A Comparison of Three Major Statistical Packages (SAS, SPSS, BMDP) (2007)

Corey J. Pelz, John P. Klein

INTRODUCTION The application of survival models to data is valid when the endpoint of interest is the "time to the occurrence of a particular event." Survival models may be applied to a...

Additive hazards Markov regression models illustrated with bone marrow transplant data (2005)

Shu, Youyi, Klein, John P.

When there are covariate effects to be considered, multi-state survival analysis is dominated either by parametric Markov regression models or by semiparametric Markov regression models using Cox's...

Generalised linear models for correlated pseudo-observations, with applications to multi-state models (2003)

Andersen, Per Kragh, Klein, John P., Rosthøj, Susanne

In multi‐state models regression analysis typically involves the modelling of each transition intensity separately. Each probability of interest, namely the probability that a subject will be...

Bone marrow transplantation from HLA-identical siblings as treatment for myelodysplasia (2002)

Pérez, Waleska S, Rozman, Ciril, Carreras, Enric, Klein, John P, Rizzo, J Douglas, ...

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the only curative therapy for myelodysplasia (MDS). To identify factors influencing transplantation outcome, we studied 452 recipients of...

High-dose versus standard chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer: comparison of Cancer and Leukemia Group B trials with data from the Autologous Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry (2002)

Berry, Donald A., Broadwater, Gloria, Klein, John P., Antman, Karen, Aisner, Joseph, Bitran, Jacob, ...

PURPOSE: To assess survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) versus standard-dose chemotherapy (SDC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: SDC in four Cancer and...

Accelerated Life Tests under Competing Weibull Causes of Failure. (2002)

Klein,John P., Basu,Asit P.

Accelerated life testing of a product under more severe than normal condition is commonly used to reduce test time and cost. Data collected at such accelerated conditions is used to obtain estimates...

Weibull Accelerated Life Tests When There Are Competing Causes of Failure. (2002)

Klein,John P., Basu,Asit P.

Accelerated life testing of a product under more severe than normal conditions is commonly used to reduce test time and costs. Data collected at such accelerated conditions are used to obtain...

Accelerated Life Testing Under Competing Exponential Failure Distributions. (2002)

Klein,John P., Basu,Asit P.

Accelerated life testing of a product is commonly used to estimate parameters of devices with extremely long lifelines. The problem of analyzing accelerated life tests when the product can fail from...

Effects of Assuming Independent Component Failure Times, if They Are Actually Dependent, in a Series System. (2002)

Moeschberger,Melvin L., Klein,John P.

The overall objective of this proposal is to investigate the robustness to departures from independence of methods currently in use in reliability studies when competing failure modes or competing...

Effects of Assuming Independent Component Failure Times, If They Are Actually Dependent, in a Series System. (2002)

Moeschberger,Melvin L., Klein,John P.

The overall objective of this proposal is to investigate the robustness to departures from independence of methods currently in use in reliability studies when competing failure modes or competing...

Effects of Assuming Independent Component Failure Times, If They Are Actually Dependent, In a Series System. (1998)

Moeschberger, Melvin L., Klein, John P.

The overall objective of this proposal is to develop improved estimation techniques for us in reliability studies when there are competing failure modes or competing causes of failure associated with...

The Role of Frailty Models and Accelerated Failure Time Models in Describing Heterogeneity Due to Omitted Covariates (1997)

Niels Keiding, Per Kragh Andersen, John P. Klein

INTRODUCTION Statistical modelling of heterogeneity may be based on strati#cation according to factors, regression on covariates, or by assuming a probability distribution of the interindividual...

Statistical Challenges In Comparing Chemotherapy And (1996)

Bone Marrow Transplantation, John P. Klein, Mei-jie Zhang

Introduction Both chronic and acute leukemias are treated by one of two treatment modalities: intensive chemotherapy or bone marrow transplantation. Both treatment regimes have shown varying e#cacies...

Graphical models for panel studies, illustrated on data from the Framingham heart study (1995)

John P. Klein, John P. Klein, Niels Keiding, Niels Keiding, Svend Kreiner, Svend Kreiner

Recursive graphical models allow description of the simultaneous development of several (discrete) characteristics such as are recorded in a panel study. Irreversible events (death, irreversible...

Estimates of marginal survival for dependent competing risks based on an assumed copula (1995)

ZHENG, MING, KLEIN, JOHN P.

When time to death and time to censoring are associated one may be appreciably misled when the marginal survival functions are estimated using the product-limit estimators, which assume independent...

Effects of Model Misspecification in Estimating Covariate Effects in Survival Analysis for Small Sample Sizes (1993)

Yi-Hwei Li, John P. Klein, M. L. Moeschberger

The results of a Monte Carlo study of the size and power of parametric and semiparametric approaches to inference on covariate effects in survival (time-to-events) models in the presence of model...

Long-term outcome of patients given transplants of mobilized blood or bone marrow: a report from the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry and the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Schmitz, Norbert, Eapen, Mary, Horowitz, Mary M., Zhang, Mei-Jie, Klein, John P., Rizzo, J. Douglas, ...

We previously compared outcomes after allogeneic peripheral-blood stem cell (PBSC) and bone marrow (BM) transplantation in 706 patients with leukemia. We obtained long-term follow up on 413 of 491...

Regression Analysis for Multistate Models Based on a Pseudo-value Approach, with Applications to Bone Marrow Transplantation Studies

PER K. ANDERSEN, JOHN P. KLEIN

Typically, regression analysis for multistate models has been based on regression models for the transition intensities. These models lead to highly nonlinear and very complex models for the effects...

Bone marrow transplantation for severe aplastic anemia: a randomized controlled study of conditioning regimens

Champlin, Richard E., Perez, Waleska S., Passweg, Jakob R., Klein, John P., Camitta, Bruce M., Gluckman, Eliane, ...

The addition of antithymocyte globulin (ATG) to a regimen of high-dose cyclophosphamide has been advocated to enhance engraftment after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for severe...

Missing KIR ligands are associated with less relapse and increased graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following unrelated donor allogeneic HCT

Miller, Jeffery S., Cooley, Sarah, Parham, Peter, Farag, Sherif S., Verneris, Michael R., McQueen, Karina L., ...

Natural killer (NK) cells can alter the outcome of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) if donor alloreactivity targets the recipient. Since most NK cells express inhibitory killer-immunoglobulin...

Worse outcome and more chronic GVHD with peripheral blood progenitor cells than bone marrow in HLA-matched sibling donor transplants for young patients with severe acquired aplastic anemia

Schrezenmeier, Hubert, Passweg, Jakob R., Marsh, Judith C. W., Bacigalupo, Andrea, Bredeson, Christopher N., Bullorsky, Eduardo, ...

We analyzed the outcome of 692 patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) receiving transplants from HLA-matched siblings. A total of 134 grafts were peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) grafts,...

Additive hazards Markov regression models illustrated with bone marrow transplant data

Youyi Shu, John P. Klein

When there are covariate effects to be considered, multi-state survival analysis is dominated either by parametric Markov regression models or by semiparametric Markov regression models using Cox's...

Adverse events among 2408 unrelated donors of peripheral blood stem cells: results of a prospective trial from the National Marrow Donor Program

Pulsipher, Michael A., Chitphakdithai, Pintip, Miller, John P., Logan, Brent R., King, Roberta J., Rizzo, J. Douglas, ...

Limited data are available describing donor adverse events (AEs) associated with filgrastim mobilized peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collections in unrelated volunteers. We report results in 2408...