A semi-parametric threshold regression analysis of sexually transmitted infections in adolescent women

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3029-3042

  Yu, Zhangsheng ^a   Tu, Wanzhu ^a,b   Lee, Mei Ling Ting ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; First hitting time model; Nonproportional hazard; Penalized spline; Regression spline; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PENALIZED SPLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION SPLINE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOSTATISTICS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COITUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70449372515     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3686     Document Type: Article

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