Objective This paper reports on a questionnaire survey among Singapore physicians, carried out from November, 2003 to January, 2004 to gauge their professional satisfaction levels.Methods The survey participants (N = 380) were drawn randomly from both public and private sectors and...

Modelling of HIV dynamics in AIDS research has greatly improved our understanding of the pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection and guided for the treatment of AIDS patients and evaluation of antiretroviral therapies. Some of the model parameters may have practical meanings with prior knowledge...

This article explores Bayesian joint models of event times and longitudinal measures with an attempt to overcome departures from normality of the longitudinal response, measurement errors, and shortages of confidence in specifying a parametric time-to-event model. We allow the longitudinal...