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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1976 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Norman E. Breslow was affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research contributions spanned several fields including statistics and probability, molecular biology, surgery, and management science and operations research.

Their research topics covered a variety of areas such as renal and related cancers, advanced causal inference techniques, statistical methods and inference, lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, as well as demographic modeling and climate adaptation.

Norman E. Breslow published multiple papers, with recent works including:

  • Estimating the hazard rate difference from case-cohort studies, 2021, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Obstetric history and birth characteristics and Wilms Tumor: A report from the Children's Oncology Group, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Maternal exposure to medical radiation and Wilms tumor in the offspring: a report from the Children's Oncology Group, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Using the Whole Cohort in the Analysis of Case-Cohort Data, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Household Pesticides and the Risk of Wilms Tumor, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors in their work included Andrew F. Olshan, Julie A. Ross, Julie L. Daniels, Brad H. Pollock, and Jie Hu.

Publications were often published in venues such as UNC Libraries and the European Journal of Epidemiology.

Over the course of their career, Norman E. Breslow received several honors including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 1986
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1984
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1976

Best Publications

  • Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. analysis and examples.

    R Peto;M C Pike;P Armitage;N E Breslow

  • Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models

    N. E. Breslow;D. G. Clayton

  • Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. I. Introduction and design.

    R. Peto;M. C. Pike;P. Armitage;N. E. Breslow

  • Covariance analysis of censored survival data.

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  • A generalized Kruskal-Wallis test for comparing K samples subject to unequal patterns of censorship

    Norman Breslow

  • The analysis of failure times in the presence of competing risks.

    R. L. Prentice;J. D. Kalbfleisch;A. V. Peterson;N. Flournoy

  • Treatment of Wilms' tumor. Results of the Third National Wilms' Tumor Study.

    Giulio J. D'angio;Norman Breslow;J. Bruce Beckwith;Audrey Evans

  • Study design and cohort characteristics of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study: a multi-institutional collaborative project.

    Leslie L. Robison;Ann C. Mertens;John D. Boice;Norman E. Breslow

  • Estimation of Disease Rates in Small Areas: A new Mixed Model for Spatial Dependence

    Brian G. Leroux;Xingye Lei;Norman Breslow

  • Epidemiology of Wilms tumor

    N Breslow;A Olshan;J B Beckwith;D M Green

  • Bias correction in generalised linear mixed models with a single component of dispersion

    Norman E. Breslow;Xihong Lin

  • The treatment of Wilms' tumor. Results of the national Wilms' tumor study

    Giulio J. D'Angio;Audrey E. Evans;Norman Breslow;Bruce Beckwith

  • Bias Correction in Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Multiple Components of Dispersion

    Xihong Lin;Norman E. Breslow

  • Loss of Heterozygosity for Chromosomes 1p and 16q Is an Adverse Prognostic Factor in Favorable-Histology Wilms Tumor: A Report From the National Wilms Tumor Study Group

    Paul E. Grundy;Norman E. Breslow;Sierra Li;Elizabeth Penman

  • ESTIMATION OF MULTIPLE RELATIVE RISK FUNCTIONS IN MATCHED CASE-CONTROL STUDIES

    N. E. Breslow;N. E. Day;K. T. Halvorsen;R. L. Prentice

  • The treatment of Wilms' Tumor: Results of the second national Wilms' Tumor study

    G. J. D'Angio;A. Evans;N. Breslow;B. Beckwith

  • Statistical estimation of prognosis for children with neuroblastoma.

    Norman Breslow;Barbara McCann

  • A GENERAL ESTIMATOR FOR THE VARIANCE OF THE MANTEL HAENSZEL ODDS RATIO

    James Robins;Sander Greenland;Norman E. Breslow

  • Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney: a review of 351 cases from the National Wilms Tumor Study Group Pathology Center.

    Pedram Argani;Elizabeth Perlman;Norman Breslow;Nancy Browning

  • Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Vol. 2, the Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies

    Clive Osmond

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio J. D'Angio
Giulio J. D'Angio University of Pennsylvania
Daniel M. Green
Daniel M. Green St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
J. Bruce Beckwith
J. Bruce Beckwith Loma Linda University
Elizabeth J. Perlman
Elizabeth J. Perlman Northwestern University
Robert C. Shamberger
Robert C. Shamberger Boston Children's Hospital
Åke Lernmark
Åke Lernmark Lund University
Andrew F. Olshan
Andrew F. Olshan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Noel S. Weiss
Noel S. Weiss University of Washington
Ingrid Kockum
Ingrid Kockum Karolinska Institute
Jerry P. Palmer
Jerry P. Palmer University of Washington

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