An approach to joint analysis of longitudinal measurements and competing risks failure time data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2813-2835

  Elashoff, Robert M ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Li, Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risks model; EM algorithm; Joint modelling; Longitudinal data; Mixed effects model

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PLACEBO;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT ERROR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERODERMA; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249899104     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2749     Document Type: Article

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