Approximate methods for joint models in longitudinal studies

Longitudinal studies often contain several statistical issues, suchas longitudinal process and time-to-event process, the associationamong which requires joint modeling strategy. We firstly review the recent researches on the joint modeling topic. After that, four popular inference methods are intr...

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Main Author: Lu, Libo
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27909