Frailty models: Applications to biomedical and genetic studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2754-2764

  Govindarajulu, Usha S ^a   Lin, Haiqun ^b   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^c   D'Agostino, Sr ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated; Cox model; Frailty; Genetic; Tutorial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FAMILY STUDY; FRAILTY MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052859423     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4277     Document Type: Article

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