Flexible estimation of differences in treatment-specific recurrent event means in the presence of a terminating event

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 753-761

  Pan, Qing ^a   Schaubel, Douglas E ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive rates model; Competing risks; Marginal mean; Proportional hazards model; Rate regression; Semiparametric model

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; HOSPITALS;

ADDITIVE RATE MODELS; COMPETING RISKS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MARGINAL MEAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; RATE REGRESSION; RECURRENT EVENTS; SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELING; SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

HAZARDS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENCE RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349243618     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01157.x     Document Type: Article

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