Incidence densities in a competing events analysis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1077-1084

  Grambauer, Nadine ^a,b   Schumacher, Martin ^a   Dettenkofer, Markus ^a   Beyersmann, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

competing risks; event specific hazard; incidence rate; model misspecification; proportional hazards; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LITERATURE REVIEW; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; VIRAL DISEASE; WOMENS HEALTH;

HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS INFECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 77958544389     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq246     Document Type: Review

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