Promotion time models with time-changing exposure and heterogeneity: Application to infectious diseases

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 395-407

  Tournoud, Maud ^a   Ecochard, René ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cure rate models; Frailty models; Infectious diseases; Multiple exposures; Promotion time model

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; CURING; PATHOGENS; RISK PERCEPTION;

COMPOUND POISSON DISTRIBUTION; CURE RATE; CURE RATE MODEL; FRAILTY MODELS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MULTIPLE EXPOSURE; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; PROMOTION-TIME MODEL; RATE MODELS; TIME MODELING;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 49849095607     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200710405     Document Type: Article

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