A hierarchical frailty model applied to two-generation melanoma data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-460

  Moger, Tron Anders ^a   Haugen, Marion ^a   Yip, Benjamin H K ^b   Gjessing, Håkon K ^c,d   Borgan, Ørnulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Family data; Frailty; L vy; Multivariate; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; ONSET AGE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE OF ONSET; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79958272199     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-010-9188-3     Document Type: Article

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