Correcting for selection using frailty models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1672-1684

  Olesen, Anne Vingaard ^a   Parner, Erik Thorlund ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bias; Frailty model; Recurrent events; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; ONSET AGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECURRENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646802265     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2298     Document Type: Article

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