A MARKOV TRANSITION MODEL TO DEMENTIA WITH DEATH AS A COMPETING EVENT

The research on multi-state Markov transition model is motivated by the nature of the longitudinal data from the Nun Study (Snowdon, 1997), and similar information on the BRAiNS cohort (Salazar, 2004). Our goal is to develop a flexible methodology for handling the categorical longitudinal responses...

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Main Author: Xu, Liou
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2010
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/42
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=gradschool_diss