Thursday, January 30, 2014

Recurrent events analysis, not so straightforward!

Heart failure hospitalizations are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular death, so if an individual dies during follow-up, this isn't necessarily independent of the event process of interest. Dependent censoring needs to be accounted for in any analyses that are carried out and this renders standard methods as unsuitable. Here is some discussion about the alternative approaches:

http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/5786631/Recurrent-events-analysis-not-so-straightforward.html

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