Frailty survival model analysis of the national deceased donor kidney transplant dataset using poisson variance structures

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 471, 2005, Pages 728-735

  Feng, Shibao ^a   Wolfe, Robert A ^b   Port, Friedrich K ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Education Association   (United States)

Author keywords

End stage renal disease; Mixed poisson likelihood function; Multivariate survival analysis; Penalized quasi likelihood; Semiparametric

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644494782     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000123     Document Type: Review

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