Analysis of clustered recurrent event data with application to hospitalization rates among renal failure patients

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 404-419

  Schaubel, Douglas E ^a   Cai, Jianwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered failure time data; Frailty model; Proportional means model recurrent events; Semiparametric model; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 26644475234     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi018     Document Type: Article

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