Score tests for exploring complex models: Application to HIV dynamics models

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-21

  Drylewicz, Julia ^a,b   Commenges, Daniel ^a,b   Thiébaut, Rodolphe ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; HIV dynamical model; Homogeneity; Random effects; Score test

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; COMPLEX MODEL; DYNAMICAL MODELING; DYNAMICS MODELS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; HIV DYNAMICAL MODEL; HIV DYNAMICS; HOMOGENEITY; RANDOM EFFECTS; SCORE TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSTATISTICS; BLOOD; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; BIOSTATISTICS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RNA, VIRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952564062     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200900030     Document Type: Article

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