The Survival Kit: Software to analyze survival data including possibly correlated random effects

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 503-510

  Meszaros G ^a   Solkner J ^a   Ducrocq, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Correlated random effects; Frailty model; Proportional hazards; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FRAILTY MODELS; HAZARD FUNCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOM EFFECTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WEIBULL MODELS;

BIOINFORMATICS; HAZARDS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; PEDIGREE; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUSTRIA; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877040427     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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