A tutorial on multilevel survival analysis: Methods, models and applications

International Statistical Review

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 185-203

  Austin, Peter C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Cox proportional hazards model; Event history models; Frailty models; Health services research; Hierarchical regression model; Multilevel models; Statistical software; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016570034     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: 17515823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/insr.12214     Document Type: Article

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