Frailty approach for the analysis of clustered failure time observations in dental research

Journal of Dental Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-58

  Chuang, S K ^a,b,d   Cai, T ^b   Douglass, C W ^c   Wei, L J ^b   Dodson, T B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Chestnut Hill Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered survival data; Cox regression analysis; Dental implants; Follow up study; Frailty approach; Gamma distribution; Risk factors; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENTAL RESEARCH; DENTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL PROSTHESIS DESIGN; DENTAL RESEARCH; DENTAL RESTORATION FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 16644395903     PISSN: 00220345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154405910508400109     Document Type: Article

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