Estimating the burden of recurrent events in the presence of competing risks: The method of mean cumulative count

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 181, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 532-540

  Dong, Huiru ^a   Robison, Leslie L ^a   Leisenring, Wendy M ^a   Martin, Leah J ^a   Armstrong, Gregory T ^a   Yasui, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cumulative incidence; disease burden; mean cumulative count; recurrent events

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CHILD HEALTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL STUDY; CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEAN CUMULATIVE COUNT; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; POPULATION; PROBABILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926661312     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu289     Document Type: Article

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