Modelling seasonal and weather dependency of cardiac arrests using the covariate order method

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3315-3329

  Kvaløy, Jan Terje ^a   Skogvoll, Eirik ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Counting process; Covariate effect; Cox regression; Non parametric estimation; Proportional intensities regression; Recurrent events

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEART ARREST; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEATHER; WINTER;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEASONS; WEATHER;

EID: 34447286003     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2772     Document Type: Article

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