A comparison of methods for determining HIV viral set point

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-139

  Mei, Y ^a   Wang, L ^b   Holte, S E ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effective; Experimental design; Longitudinal data; Random change point model; Repeated observations; Set point

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EFFECT SIZE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS EXAMINATION; VIRUS LOAD;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 38849207486     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3038     Document Type: Article

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