A case-study in the clinical epidemiology of psoriatic arthritis: Multistate models and causal arguments

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 675-699

  O'Keeffe, Aidan G ^a   Tom, Brian D M ^a   Farewell, Vernon T ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bradford Hill criteria; Causality; Composable Markov process; Damage; Disease activity; Dynamic modelling; Granger causality and non causality; Interval censoring; Local dependence and independence; Multistate models; Psoriatic arthritis; Random effect; Robust information sandwich estimator; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053394178     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.00767.x     Document Type: Article

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