A maximum likelihood estimator of a Markov model for disease activity in Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis for annually aggregated partial observations

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 132-142

  Borg, Sixten ^a   Persson, Ulf ^a   Jess, Tine ^b   Thomsen, Ole Østergaard ^c   Ljung, Tryggve ^d   Riis, Lene ^c   Munkholm, Pia ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aggregated and partial observations; Disease activity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Markov model; Maximum likelihood estimator; Transition probability matrix

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; DENMARK; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; DENMARK; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 75949085042     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X09336141     Document Type: Article

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