under H 0 and H 1, respectively, where n represents the total sample size in the study (cases and controls). M 0 (n,k) is analogous to a type I error, yet is not fixed by design at α. M i (n,k) i=0,1 ...

In many public health problems, an important goal is to identify the effect of some treatment/intervention on the risk of failure for the whole population. A marginal proportional hazards regression ...

The need to combine likelihood information is common in analyses of complex models and in meta-analyses, where information is combined from several studies. We work to first order, and show that full ...