Regression models for infant mortality data in Norwegian siblings, using a compound Poisson frailty distribution with random scale

Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 577-591

  Moger, Tron Anders ^a   Aalen, Odd O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Family data; Frailty; Infant mortality; Relative risk; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; METHODOLOGY; NORWAY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

BIOMETRY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SIBLINGS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45849088723     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn003     Document Type: Article

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