Generalized gamma frailty model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 2797-2816

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Peng, Yingwei ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censoring; Clustered data; Generalized gamma distribution; Lognormal distribution; Monte Carlo approximation; Piecewise constant hazards; Quadrature; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; PLACEBO;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BIOMETRY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NITROGLYCERIN; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 33746925240     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2375     Document Type: Article

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