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The analysis of survival data with a non-susceptible fraction and dual censoring mechanisms.
Statistics in medicine - 30 Oct 2003
Gagnon David R, Glickman Mark E, Myers Richard H, Cupples L Adrienne
Abstract excerpt
It is known that the ages of onset of many diseases are determined by both a genetic predisposition to disease as well as environmental risk factors that are capable of either triggering or hastening the onset of disease. Difficulties in modelling onset ages arise when a large fraction fail to inherit the disease-causing gene, and multiple reasons for censoring result in unobserved onset ages. We present a...
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