Shared frailty models for recurrent events and a terminal event

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 747-756

  Liu, Lei ^a   Wolfe, Robert A ^a   Huang, Xuelin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting process; Dependent censoring; Hospitalization; Proportional hazards model; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; HOSPITALS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

COUNTING PROCESS; DEPENDENT CENSORING; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; RECURRENT EVENT DATUM; RECURRENT EVENTS; SHARED FRAILTY MODEL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

HEALTH CARE; MODELING; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DATA ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 4444337742     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00225.x     Document Type: Article

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