Piecewise exponential models to assess the influence of job-specific experience on the hazard of acute injury for hourly factory workers

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kubo, Jessica ^a   Cullen, Mark R ^b   Cantley, Linda ^c   Slade, Martin ^c   Tessier Sherman, Baylah ^c   Taiwo, Oyebode ^c   Desai, Manisha ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline hazard; Censored data; Frailty models; Occupational health; Piecewise exponential models; Survival analysis; Time to event data; Weibull models

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; METALLURGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880001770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-89     Document Type: Article

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