Bivariate modelling of longitudinal measurements of two human immunodeficiency type 1 disease progression markers in the presence of informative drop-outs

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 405-423

  Pantazis, N ^a   Touloumi, G ^a   Walker, A S ^b   Babiker, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bivariate response; Informative censoring; Missing data; Repeated measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544307431     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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