A new serially correlated gamma-frailty process for longitudinal count data

Biostatistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-257

  Fiocco, M ^a   Putter, H ^a   Van Houwelingen, J C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2 Stage estimation; Composite likelihood; Correlated frailty; Counting processes; Multivariate gamma distribution; Repeated events; Sandwich estimator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVARY TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61449103680     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn031     Document Type: Article

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