A varying-coefficient Cox model for the effect of age at a marker event on age at menopause

Biometrics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 576-583

  Nan, Bin ^a   Lin, Xihong ^a   Lisabeth, Lynda D ^b   Harlow, Siobán D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

B splines; Cox regression; Generalized cross validation; Marker events; Nonparametric regression; Survival analysis; Time dependent covariates

Indexed keywords

B SPLINES; COX REGRESSION; GENERALIZED CROSS VALIDATION; HEALTH RESEARCH; MARKER EVENT; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME-DEPENDENT COVARIATES; VARYING-COEFFICIENT COX MODEL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODEL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 20744455963     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.030905.x     Document Type: Review

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