Survival analysis for recurrent event data: An application to childhood infectious diseases

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-33

  Kelly, Patrick J ^a   Lim, Lynette L Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE SIMULATION; INFECTION RISK; RECURRENT INFECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; INFANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0034650320     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000115)19:1<13::AID-SIM279>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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