Semiparametric methods for clustered recurrent event data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 405-425

  Schaubel, Douglas E ^a   Cai, Jianwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered failure time data; Marginal model; Ordered event times; Proportional rates; Robust variance

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24144486533     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-005-2970-y     Document Type: Article

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