A Nested Frailty Model for Survival Data, with an Application to the Study of Child Survival in Northeast Brazil

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 438, 1997, Pages 426-435

  Sastry, Narayan ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Hierarchically clustered data; Multilevel hazard model; Nested random effects; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; INFANT MORTALITY; LENGTH OF LIFE; LONGEVITY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORSHIP; THEORETICAL MODEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BRAZIL; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD SURVIVAL; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; LATIN AMERICA; LENGTH OF LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVORSHIP;

AMERICAS; BRAZIL; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GEOGRAPHY; INFANT MORTALITY; LATIN AMERICA; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031282971     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473994     Document Type: Article

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