A PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL FOR TRUNCATED AIDS DATA

被引:30
作者
FINKELSTEIN, DM
MOORE, DF
SCHOENFELD, DA
机构
[1] TEMPLE UNIV,PHILADELPHIA,PA 19122
[2] MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSP,BOSTON,MA 02114
关键词
AIDS; HIV; IDENTIFIABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; TRUNCATED FAILURE TIME DATA;
D O I
10.2307/2532194
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
An important source of information on the latency period for AIDS is the data from individuals infected by contaminated blood transfusion. However, a difficulty in the analysis and interpretation of these data is that information is available only on individuals who are infected and develop the disease prior to some specific time. In this paper, we propose an approach to the analysis of such data under a proportional hazards model. The proposed approach allows testing for group effects in the presence of multiple explanatory variables.
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页码:731 / 740
页数:10
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