The analysis of a bivariate multi-state Markov transition model for rheumatoid arthritis with an incomplete disease history

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1677-1690

  Young, Philip J ^a   Weeden, Simon ^b   Kirwan, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDNISOLONE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033565596     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990715)18:13<1677::AID-SIM154>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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