Analyzing recurrent event data with informative censoring

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 455, 2001, Pages 1057-1065

  Wang, Mei Cheng ^a   Qin, Jing ^b   Chiang, Chin Tsang ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Frailty; Intensity function; Latent variable; Proportional rate model; Rate function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442280665     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753209031     Document Type: Article

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