Analysing panel count data with informative observation times

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 763-775

  Huang, Chiung Yu ^a   Wang, Mei Cheng ^b   Zhang, Ying ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependent censoring; Frailty; Poisson process; Rate function; Serial events

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845747193     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.4.763     Document Type: Article

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