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Analysis of testicular cancer data using a frailty model with familial dependence.
Statistics in medicine - 28 Feb 2004
Moger Tron A, Aalen Odd O, Heimdal Ketil, Gjessing Håkon K
Abstract excerpt
Previously published papers have indicated a fairly strong familial dependence intesticular cancer patients. This is particularly evident in brothers. We have applied a frailty model with familial dependence to family data on brothers of testicular cancer patients from the Norwegian Radium Hospital. The model is a two-level frailty, with variation in susceptibility at both the family and the individual level....
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