Estimating time to event from longitudinal categorical data: An analysis of multiple sclerosis progression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 480, 2007, Pages 1254-1266

  Mandel, Micha ^a   Gauthier, Susan A ^b,c   Guttmann, Charles R G ^b,c   Weiner, Howard L ^b,c   Betensky, Rebecca A ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov model; Multistate model; Ordinal response; Pointwise confidence interval; Survival curve; Time series; Transition model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250304796     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000059     Document Type: Article

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