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SUBMITTER: Clement DY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2697342 | biostudies-other | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Biostatistics (Oxford, England) 20090318 3
This paper deals with the analysis of recurrent event data subject to censored observation. Using a suitable adaptation of generalized estimating equations for longitudinal data, we propose a straightforward methodology for estimating the parameters indexing the conditional means and variances of the process interevent (i.e. gap) times. The proposed methodology permits the use of both time-fixed and time-varying covariates, as well as transformations of the gap times, creating a flexible and use ...[more]