Open Access Research article

Parametric frailty models for clustered data with arbitrary censoring: application to effect of male circumcision on HPV clearance

Xiangrong Kong1*, Kellie J Archer2, Lawrence H Moulton3,4, Ronald H Gray1 and Mei-Cheng Wang3

1 Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

2 Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

3 Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

4 Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

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BMC Medical Research Methodology 2010, 10:40 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-40

Published: 6 May 2010

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Log-linear form of the AFT frailty model

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Preparation for estimation using SAS PROC NLMIXED, and the code for estimating male circumcision effect on HR-HPV clearance

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