A Bivariate Frailty Model with a Cure Fraction for Modeling Familial Correlations in Diseases

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1178-1183

  Wienke, Andreas ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^b   Yashin, Anatoli I ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cure models; Frailty models; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CURING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIVARIATE; BIVARIATE FRAILTY MODELS; BREAST CANCER; CURE FRACTIONS; CURE MODELS; FRAILTY MODELS; GAMMA FRAILTY MODELS; MIXTURE MODELING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDISHS;

DISEASES;

DISEASE;

ASSAY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; LIFESPAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0347994073     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00135.x     Document Type: Review

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