Analysis of time to a silent event whose occurrence is monitored with error, with application to mother-to-child HIV transmission

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 4637-4646

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Lagakos, Stephen W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic test; Gibbs sampler; Interval censored data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Profile likelihood

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53849125486     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3125     Document Type: Article

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