Modeling random effects for censored data by a multivariate normal regression model

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 497-506

  Klein, John P ^a   Pelz, Corey ^a   Zhang, Mei Jie ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Frailty models; Multivariate regression

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CENSORED DATA; DEPENDENCE PROPERTIES; FAILURE TIME; FRAILTY MODELS; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; RANDOM EFFECTS; REGRESSION MODELLING; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; SURVIVAL TIME;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033006643     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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