Statistical methods for the identification and use of prognostic factors.

Adolescent Adult Age Factors Aged Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis,mortality,therapy Child Child, Preschool Female Hodgkin Disease/diagnosis,mortality Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Methods Middle Aged Neoplasm Metastasis Neoplasm Recurrence, Local Prognosis Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnosis,mortality Statistics as Topic Time Factors