Using multiple decrement models to estimate risk and morbidity from specific aids illnesses

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 21-22, 1996, Pages 2307-2321

  Hoover, Donald R ^a   Peng, Yun ^a   Saah, Alfred J ^a   Detels, Roger R ^b   Day, Roger S ^c   Phair, John P ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BIOSTATISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MODEL; MORBIDITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029856408     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961115)15:21<2307::AID-SIM450>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Conference Paper

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