Using penalized splines to model ageand season-of-birth-dependent effects of childhood mortality risk factors in rural burkina faso

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-122

  Becher, Heiko ^b   Kauerniann, Göran ^a   Khomski, Pavel ^a   Kouyaté, Bocar ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Non proportional hazard model; Penalized spline estimation; Survival time modeling

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BURKINA FASO; CHILD MORTALITY; NON PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODEL; PENALIZED SPLINE ESTIMATION; PENALIZED SPLINES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL TIME; SURVIVAL TIME MODELING; TIME MODELING;

RURAL AREAS;

EID: 60849100219     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200810496     Document Type: Article

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