Estimating correlation by using a general linear mixed model: Evaluation of the relationship between the concentration of HIV-1 RNA in blood and semen

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1457-1464

  Chakraborty, Hrishikesh ^a   Helms, Ronald W ^b   Sen, Pranab K ^b   Cohen, Myron S ^c  

^a IQVIA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Correlaiton; HIV; HIV RNA; Mixed model; Semen

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROPHYLAXIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN;

EID: 0008974359     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1505     Document Type: Article

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