The analysis of asthma control under a Markov assumption with use of covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3755-3770

  Saint Pierre, P ^a   Combescure, C ^a   Daures J P ^a   Godard, P ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

Author keywords

Continuous time Markov processes; Longitudinal data on asthma; Maximum likelihood estimation; Piecewise constant intensities; Time dependent covariates

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEATH; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHASE TRANSITION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASTHMA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MARKOV CHAINS;

EID: 0347519212     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1680     Document Type: Article

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