Censored correlated cytokine concentrations: Multivariate Tobit regression using clustered variance estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 2859-2874

  Andersen, Andreas ^a   Benn, Christine S ^a   Jørgensen, Mathias J ^a   Ravn, Henrik ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Censoring; Cytokine; Geometric mean; Non detectable; Relative concentration; Tobit

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE TOBIT LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION; BIVARIATE TOBIT METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOBIT STACKING METHOD; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOKINES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84879183495     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5696     Document Type: Article

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