The application of developments in theoretical biostatistics to epidemiologic research

Report of a workshop held on 18 July 1991 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Workshop participants were: William J. Blot, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Ronald S. Brookmeyer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Theodore Colton, Boston University, Boston, MA; Genrose D. Copley, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; Mitchell Gail, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; Nancy L. Geller, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD; Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Duke University, Durham, NC; Marthana Hjortland, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; Elizabeth Holly, Northern California Cancer Center, Belmont, CA; Michel Ibrahim, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Stephen W. Lagakos, Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA (written report only); G. Iris Obrams, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; Wasema Rida, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD; Jonathan Samet, New Mexico Tumor Registry, Albuquerque, NM; Robert F. Woolson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and Mimi C. Yu, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Chair).