A Measure of Explained Variation for Event History Data

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 750-759

  Stare, Janez ^a   Perme, Maja Pohar ^a   Henderson, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C index; Dynamic models; Explained variation; Rank correlation; Recurrent events

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

C-INDEX; COVARIATES; DYNAMICS MODELS; EVENT HISTORY; EXPLAINED VARIATION; HISTORY DATA; RANK CORRELATION; RECURRENT EVENTS; SINGLE EVENT; TIME VARYING;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

BIOMETRY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 80052794654     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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