Joint Modeling of Event Time and Nonignorable Missing Longitudinal Data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-115

  Dupuy, Jean François ^a   Mesbah, Mounir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Missing covariate values; Nonignorable dropout; Nonparametric likelihood; Time dependent Cox model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MARKOV CHAINS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036618247     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014871806118     Document Type: Article

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