Correlated time to event data: Modeling repeated clinical mastitis data from dairy cattle in New York State

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 150-156

  Schukken, Ynte H ^a   Bar, Doron ^b   Hertl, Julia ^a   Gröhn, Yrjo T ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SCR Engineers Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Correlated data; Cox regression; Mastitis; Multilevel models; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

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EID: 78650178535     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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