Comparison of the Andersen-Gill model with poisson and negative binomial regression on recurrent event data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4989-4997

  Jahn Eimermacher, Antje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANDERSEN-GILL MODEL; BINOMIAL REGRESSION; POISSON REGRESSION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 46549090029     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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