Joint frailty models for recurring events and death using maximum penalized likelihood estimation: Application on cancer events

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 708-721

  Rondeau, Virginie ^a,b   Mathoulin Pelissier, Simone ^c   Jacqmin Gadda, Hélne ^a,b   Brouste, Véronique ^c   Soubeyran, Pierre ^c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c INSTITUT BERGONIÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Joint frailty models; Penalized likelihood; Recurrent events

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848918154     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxl043     Document Type: Article

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