Making predictions from complex longitudinal data, with application to planning monitoring intervals in a national screening programme

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 569-586

  Sweeting, M J ^a   Thompson, S G ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Hierarchical model; Monitoring intervals; National screening; Prediction; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858437376     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.01005.x     Document Type: Article

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