Dispersion frailty models and HGLMs

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1341-1354

  Noh, Maengseok ^a   Ha, Il Do ^b   Lee, Youngjo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Daegu Haany University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dispersion frailty models; Heterogeneity in frailty; Hierarchical generalized linear models; Recurrent event times; Stratification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; DIALYSIS CATHETER; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644614633     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2284     Document Type: Article

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