Comparison of models analyzing a small number of observed meningitis cases in Navrongo, Ghana

DOI10.1007/s13253-016-0270-5zbMath1373.62544OpenAlexW2558475218MaRDI QIDQ2403478

Y. Hagar, Vanja Dukić, Mary Hayden, Christine Wiedinmyer

Publication date: 8 September 2017

Published in: Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-016-0270-5

zbMATH Keywords

count datasurvival analysishazard ratetime-varying covariateschanging at-risk populationmulti-resolution hazard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Medical epidemiology (92C60)

Uses Software

• R
• pscl
• BayesDA
• MRH

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