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Phase II Trial of Thalidomide and Carmustine for Patients With Recurrent High-Grade Gliomas by FINE, Howard A, WEN, Patrick Y, MAHER, Elizabeth A, VISCOSI, Elene, BATCHELOR, Tracy, LAKHANI, Nehal, FIGG, William D, PUROW, Benjamin W, BORKOWF, Craig B

“…The use of thalidomide as an antiangiogenic agent has met with only limited success in the treatment of malignant gliomas. On the basis of preclinical data…”
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A simple hybrid variance estimator for the Kaplan-Meier survival function by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…In this paper, we propose a hybrid variance estimator for the Kaplan–Meier survival function. This new estimator approximates the true variance by a Binomial…”
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Effect of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on sudden cardiac death in patients following acute myocardial infarction : A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials by DOMANSKI, M. J, EXNER, D. V, BORKOWF, C. B, GELLER, N. L, ROSENBERG, Y, PFEFFER, M. A

“…Estimate the effect of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) following myocardial infarction (MI). Trials in…”
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Nevirapine‐associated hepatotoxicity was not predicted by CD4 count ≥250 cells/μL among women in Zambia, Thailand and Kenya by Peters, PJ, Stringer, J, McConnell, MS, Kiarie, J, Ratanasuwan, W, Intalapaporn, P, Potter, D, Mutsotso, W, Zulu, I, Borkowf, CB, Bolu, O, Brooks, JT, Weidle, PJ

“…Objective The aim of the study was to determine risk factors for developing severe hepatotoxicity (grade 3 or 4 hepatotoxicity) and rash‐associated…”
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Prognostic factors for atherosclerosis progression in Saphenous vein grafts: The Postcoronary Artery Bypass Graft (Post-CABG) Trial by DOMANSKI, Michael J, BORKOWF, Craig B, CAMPEAU, Lucien, KNATTERUD, Genell L, WHITE, Carl, HOOGWERF, Byron, ROSENBERG, Yves, GELLER, Nancy L

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Computing the nonnull asymptotic variance and the asymptotic relative efficiency of Spearman's rank correlation by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…Over the past century, Spearman's rank correlation, ρ s, has become one of the most commonly used nonparametric statistics, yet much remains unknown about its…”
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Children With Diagnoses of Perinatal HIV Infection—34 States, 2004-2007 by Lampe, MA, Nesheim, S, Shouse, RL, Borkowf, CB, Minasandram, V, Little, K, Kilmarx, PH, Whitmore, S, Taylor, A, Valleroy, L

“…Early in the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the United States, racial/ethnic disparities were…”
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Components of variation in serum carotenoid concentrations: the Polyp Prevention Trial by Forman, M.R, Borkowf, C.B, Cantwell, M.M, Steck, S, Schatzkin, A, Albert, P.S, Lanza, E

“…Objectives: The intra- and interindividual variations and season and center effects were estimated from a series of serum carotenoid concentrations in the…”
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Using lowess to remove systematic trends over time in predictor variables prior to logistic regression with quantile categories by Borkowf, Craig B., Albert, Paul S., Abnet, Christian C.

“…In case‐control studies one may employ logistic regression to model the relationship between binary responses and continuous predictor variables that have been…”
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Carotenoids, vitamin A and risk of adenomatous polyp recurrence in the polyp prevention trial by Steck‐Scott, Susan, Forman, Michele R., Sowell, Anne, Borkowf, Craig B., Albert, Paul S., Slattery, Martha, Brewer, Brenda, Caan, Bette, Paskett, Electra, Iber, Frank, Kikendall, Walt, Marshall, James, Shike, Moshe, Weissfeld, Joel, Snyder, Kirk, Schatzkin, Arthur, Lanza, Elaine

“…One trial reported beta‐carotene supplementation was protective of adenomatous polyp recurrence in nonsmokers. We now examine the relation of serum and dietary…”
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An efficient algorithm for generating two-way contingency tables with fixed marginal totals and arbitrary mean proportions, with applications to permutation tests by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…In this paper, we present an algorithm for generating two-way contingency tables with fixed marginal totals and arbitrary mean proportions. These tables have…”
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Autoantibodies associated with volatile anesthetic hepatitis found in the sera of a large cohort of pediatric anesthesiologists by Njoku, Dolores B, Greenberg, Robert S, Bourdi, Mohammed, Borkowf, Craig B, Dake, Elizabeth M, Martin, Jackie L, Pohl, Lance R

“…Anesthetic-induced hepatitis is thought to have an immune-mediated basis, in part because many patients who develop hepatitis have serum autoantibodies that…”
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Sphingolipids as Biomarkers of Fumonisin Exposure and Risk of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in China by Abnet, Christian C., Borkowf, Craig B., Qiao, You-Lin, Albert, Paul S., Wang, Elaine, Merrill, Alfred H., Mark, Steven D., Dong, Zhi-Wei, Taylor, Philip R., Dawsey, Sanford M.

“…Objective: Ecologic studies of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) have reported an association with consumption of maize contaminated with Fusarium…”
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Efficient estimation of the risk of a disease by quantile-categories of a key predictor variable using generalized additive models by Borkowf, Craig B., Albert, Paul S.

“…Suppose that one wishes to make inference to the risk of a disease by the population quartile‐categories of a key continuous predictor variable. When one…”
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COMPUTING THE NON-NULL ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE OF n-WAY CONTINGENCY TABLES WITH FIXED ONE-WAY MARGINAL TOTALS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION STUDIES by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…Consider first the set of all possible n-way multinomial tables defined by certain mean cell proportions with a given number of total counts. Consider next the…”
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A NEW METHOD FOR APPROXIMATING THE ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE OF SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…Epidemiologists use Spearman's rank correlation, ρ̂s, and the quantile correlation, ρ̂q, to measure the agreement between the bivariate ranks and the bivariate…”
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On multidimensional contingency tables with categories defined by the empirical quantiles of the marginal data by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…Epidemiologists sometimes collect multivariate continuous data on a number of subjects and then wish to analyze the relationships and the agreement between…”
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A new nonparametric method for variance estimation and confidence interval construction for Spearman's rank correlation by Borkowf, Craig B.

“…Spearman's rank correlation, ρ s, has become one of the most widely used nonparametric statistical techniques. However, explicit formulas for the finite sample…”
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A cross-sectional study of human serum sphingolipids, diet and physiologic parameters by Abnet, C C, Borkowf, C B, Qiao, Y L, Albert, P S, Wang, E, Merrill, Jr, A H, Mark, S D, Dong, Z W, Taylor, P R, Dawsey, S M

“…Sphinganine and sphingosine, the two sphingoid base backbones of sphingolipids, are highly bioactive compounds that are of increasing interest to nutritionists…”
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Analyzing Bivariate Continuous Data Grouped into Categories Defined by Empirical Quantiles of Marginal Distributions by Borkowf, Craig B., Gail, Mitchell H., Carroll, Raymond J., Gill, Richard D.

“…Epidemiologists sometimes study the association between two measurements of exposure on the same subjects by grouping the original bivariate continuous data…”
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