Statistical methods for multivariate interval-censored recurrent events

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 671-691

  Chen, Bingshu E ^a   Cook, Richard J ^b   Lawless, Jerald F ^b   Zhan, Min ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized estimating equation; Interval censoring; Multi type recurrent events; Random effects

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 14544295693     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1936     Document Type: Article

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