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A parametric model fitting time to first event for overdispersed data: application to time to relaps...

A parametric model fitting time to first event for overdispersed data: application to time to relaps...

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A parametric model fitting time to first event for overdispersed data: application to time to relapse in multiple sclerosis

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A parametric model fitting time to first event for overdispersed data: application to time to relapse in multiple sclerosis

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Boston: Springer US

Journal title

Lifetime data analysis, 2012-04, Vol.18 (2), p.139-156

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English

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Boston: Springer US

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In this article, we propose a parametric model for the distribution of time to first event when events are overdispersed and can be properly fitted by a Negative Binomial distribution. This is a very common situation in medical statistics, when the occurrence of events is summarized as a count for each patient and the simple Poisson model is not ad...

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A parametric model fitting time to first event for overdispersed data: application to time to relapse in multiple sclerosis

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_928910173

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_928910173

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ISSN

1380-7870

E-ISSN

1572-9249

DOI

10.1007/s10985-011-9207-z

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