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SUBMITTER: Mulatya CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5048533 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mulatya Caroline M CM McLain Alexander C AC Cai Bo B Hardin James W JW Albert Paul S PS
Statistics in medicine 20160713 24
In longitudinal studies, it is sometimes of interest to estimate the distribution of the time a longitudinal process takes to traverse from one threshold to another. For example, the distribution of the time it takes a woman's cervical dilation to progress from 3 to 4 cm can aid the decision-making of obstetricians as to whether a stalled labor should be allowed to proceed or stopped in favor of other options. Often researchers treat this type of data structure as interval censored and employ tr ...[more]