Regression analysis of failure time data with informative interval censoring

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2533-2546

  Zhang, Zhigang ^a   Sun, Liuquan ^b   Sun, Jianguo ^c   Finkelstein, Dianne M ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Failure time data; Informative interval censoring; Proportional hazards frailty model; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FOLLOW UP; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALGORITHMS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 34248997526     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2721     Document Type: Article

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