Conveners
Stochastic modelling
- Anne Driscoll (Virginia Tech)
Dental practices are a small business. Like any other business, they need cash flow management and financial planning to be viable, if not highly profitable. What a lot of practices may not realize is that they are sitting on a treasure trove of data to be used in more ways than plain accounting and financial forecasting. Here we focus on longitudinal data, such as the timing of each patient’s...
Gliomas are the most common form of primary brain tumors. Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas (DLGG) are slow growing tumors, and often asymptomatic during a long period. They turn into a higher grade, leading to the patients’ death. Treatments are surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, with the aim of controlling tumor evolution. Neuro-oncologists estimate the tumor size evolution by delineating tumor...
Structural Equation Models (SEMs) are primarily employed as a confirmatory approach to validate research theories. SEMs operate on the premise that a theoretical model, defined by structural relationships among unobserved constructs, can be tested against empirical data by comparing the observed covariance matrix with the implied covariance matrix derived from the model parameters....