Two-level proportional hazards models

Biometrics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 754-763

  Maples, Jerry J ^a   Murphy, Susan A ^b   Axinn, William G ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Frailty model; Hazard model; Multilevel; Profile likelihood; Random coefficient; Semiparametric likelihood; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EM ALGORITHMS; FRAILTY MODELS; HAZARD MODELING; MULTILEVELS; PROFILE LIKELIHOOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS; SEMIPARAMETRIC; SEMIPARAMETRIC LIKELIHOOD; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODELING; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRACEPTION; EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOTIVATION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

CHITWAN VALLEY; NEPAL;

EID: 0036965881     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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