A bivariate survival model with compound Poisson frailty

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 275-283

  Wienke, A ^a   Ripatti, S ^b,c   Palmgren, J ^d,e   Yashin, A ^f  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Compound poisson distribution; Correlated frailty model; Cure fraction; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; TWINS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 74749106490     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3749     Document Type: Article

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