Penalized spline smoothing for delay in Pulmonary Tuberculosis diagnosis
In this work, Cox's proportional hazards model with penalized spline functions for time-varying covariate effects are presented in order to model the time between the onset of the first symptoms and the diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) in Portugal. Using this approach revealed a better...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/9563 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/9563 |