A discrete survival model with random effects: An application to time to pregnancy

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 318-329

  Scheike, Thomas H ^a   Jensen, Tina Kold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Discrete survival methods; Fecundity; Frailty models; Left truncation; Random effects; Retrospective sampling; Right truncation; Time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; OBSTETRICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COX REGRESSION; DISCRETE SURVIVAL METHOD; FECUNDITY; FRAILTY MODELS; LEFT TRUNCATION; RANDOM EFFECTS; RETROSPECTIVE SAMPLING; RIGHT TRUNCATION; SURVIVAL MODEL; TIME TO PREGNANCY;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; DATA ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0030893265     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533117     Document Type: Article

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