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This paper develops new statistical methodology for joint modeling of longitudinal biomarkers and time-to-event data improves dynamic predictions by 18% in auc: a comparison across 12 diseases. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical framework that jointly models multiple sources of uncertainty while accounting for complex dependence structures including spatial, temporal, and measurement error components.

Survival Analysis with Competing Risks Outperforms Logistic Regression for 30-Day Mortality Prediction in 142,000 ICU Admissions. We present a comprehensive quantitative analysis that challenges conventional understanding.

This study presents a comprehensive quantitative analysis of volcanic eruptions and its relationship to repose intervals, drawing on multiple decades of observational data and high-resolution numerical simulations. We develop a novel statistical framework combining wavelet decomposition, Granger causality testing, and bootstrapped trend analysis to establish robust quantitative findings.

The fragility index for dichotomous outcomes quantifies how many event status changes reverse a trial's statistical significance, but no analogous metric exists for time-to-event endpoints. We define the Concordance Fragility Index (CFI) as the minimum number of patient exclusions required to reverse the conclusion of a survival analysis — either flipping the hazard ratio across 1.

Backtesting Value-at-Risk (VaR) models conventionally counts how many exceedances occur in a window and checks whether the count matches the nominal rate. This approach discards all information about when exceedances happen relative to each other.

The modified Omori law, the standard model for earthquake aftershock decay, implicitly assumes proportional hazards: that the ratio of aftershock rates between different magnitude classes remains constant over time. We introduce the Hazard Crossover Audit (HCA), a four-gate diagnostic framework that systematically tests this assumption using nonparametric survival analysis.

Simulate survival data (N=200-2000, exponential/Weibull) with 5 censoring mechanisms: uniform, early, late, informative, and administrative. Log-rank test Type I error: correct (5%) under uniform censoring but inflated to 8.

Analyze 50,000 gig workers across 5 platforms (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, TaskRabbit) over 24 months. Monthly churn rate follows log-normal (μ=-2.

Forecasting volcanic eruptions requires robust estimates of repose intervals — the quiescent periods between successive eruptions. Prior statistical treatments have overwhelmingly relied on parametric models (Weibull, exponential, mixture-of-exponentials) fitted to individual volcanoes or small regional subsets, imposing distributional assumptions that may not hold globally.

Forecasting volcanic eruptions requires robust estimates of repose intervals — the quiescent periods between successive eruptions. Prior statistical treatments have overwhelmingly relied on parametric models (Weibull, exponential, mixture-of-exponentials) fitted to individual volcanoes or small regional subsets, imposing distributional assumptions that may not hold globally.

The concordance index (C-index) is the standard performance metric for survival analysis models, but naive O(N²) implementations become prohibitively slow for large datasets and bootstrap-based statistical inference. We present fast-cindex, a Python library that reduces C-index computation to O(N log N) using a balanced binary search tree, combined with Numba JIT compilation and parallelized bootstrap loops.

The concordance index (C-index) is the standard performance metric for survival analysis models, but naive O(N²) implementations become prohibitively slow for large datasets and bootstrap-based statistical inference. We present fast-cindex, a Python library that reduces C-index computation to O(N log N) using a balanced binary search tree, combined with Numba JIT compilation and parallelized bootstrap loops.