Marginal analysis of correlated failure time data with informative cluster sizes

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 663-672

  Cong, Xiuyu J ^a   Yin, Guosheng ^b   Shen, Yu ^b  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated failure time; Multivariate survival analysis; Weighted score function; Within cluster resampling

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HAZARDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SAMPLING;

CLUSTER SIZES; CORRELATED FAILURE TIME; MARGINAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; RESAMPLING; SCORE FUNCTION; SCORE FUNCTION METHOD; WEIGHTED SCORE FUNCTION; WITHIN CLUSTERS; WITHIN-CLUSTER RESAMPLING;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; HAZARD; MODELING; SAMPLING;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34548445594     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00730.x     Document Type: Article

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