Box-Cox transformation of left-censored data with application to the analysis of coronary artery calcification and pharmacokinetic data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 3671-3679

  Han, Cong ^a   Kronmal, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Coronary calcification; Pharmacokinetics; Tobit model; Transforming both sides

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; NICOTINE; NOSE SPRAY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG ELIMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHANTOM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; AGED; BIOMETRY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NICOTINE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 9244232267     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1925     Document Type: Article

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