Modelling prevalence of a condition: Chronic graft-versus-host disease after bone marrow transplantation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1551-1571

  Couper, David ^a   Pepe, Margaret Sullivan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COVARIANCE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; MODEL; PREVALENCE; SIMULATION;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FORECASTING; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 1842327374     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970730)16:14<1551::AID-SIM577>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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