Flexible modelling of discrete failure time including time-varying smooth effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2445-2461

  Tutz, Gerhard ^a   Binder, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additive modelling; Discrete survival model; Time varying smooth effects; Varying coefficients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COVARIANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HOSPITAL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETRIC TEST; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GERMANY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 4344612172     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1824     Document Type: Article

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