Assessing uncertainty in reference intervals via tolerance intervals: Application to a mixed model describing HIV infection

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3185-3198

  Katzi, Hormuzd A ^a   Engels, Eric A ^a   Rosenberg, Philip S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Growth curves; Linear mixed models; Reference interval; Tolerance interval

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMOPHILIA A; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REFERENCE VALUES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 27144517648     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2171     Document Type: Article

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