Model selection for multi-component frailty models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 4790-4807

  Ha, Il Do ^a   Lee, Youngjo ^b   MacKenzie, Gilbert ^c  

^a Daegu Haany University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Deviance; Frailty models; Hierarchical generalized linear models; Hierarchical likelihood; Model selection; Profile likelihood

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; GAMMA INTERFERON; PLACEBO; RETINOL ACETATE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER PREVENTION; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; RECURRENT INFECTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RATS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348949341     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2879     Document Type: Article

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