Analysis of failure time data with multilevel clustering, with application to the child vitamin A intervention trial in Nepal

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 673-680

  Shih, Joanna H ^a   Lu, Shou En ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frailty; Multilevel clustered failure time data; Within cluster resampling

Indexed keywords

RURAL AREAS;

COVARIATES; FAILURE TIME DATA; FRAILTY; MULTILEVEL CLUSTERED FAILURE TIME DATA; MULTILEVEL CLUSTERING; MULTILEVELS; RESAMPLING; VITAMIN A; WITHIN CLUSTERS; WITHIN-CLUSTER RESAMPLING;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

RETINOL;

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VILLAGE; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548408351     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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