Friday, August 10, 2012. Master’s Thesis Defense. Heidi Qiu, UMaine Master’s candidate in Statistics (Advisor: Ramesh Gupta). “Analysis of survival data by an exponential-generalized Poisson distribution” 11:00 am, 421 Neville Hall. Survival models incorporating a cure fraction, often referred to as “cure rate models” are becoming increasingly popular in analyzing data from cancer clinical trials.