Objectives: To develop separate and joint statistical models in the Bayesian framework for longitudinal measurements and time to death event data of HIV/AIDS patients. Study design: Longitudinal study. Place and Duration of Study: The population of study includes all HIV/AIDS pat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/12907
The purpose of this study is to explore the simple Markov and Hidden Markov models with continuous time to investigate disease progression of HIV/AIDS patients under ART follow-up at Shashemene Referral Hospital, Ethiopia. The msm R package is used for the analysis. Results from...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/39428
Objective: This paper aims to compare various Bayesian joint models based on the accelerated failure time distributions in analyzing longitudinal observations on CD4 cell counts as growth measurements and time-to-death events of HIV/AIDS patients. Three accelerated failure time d...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2017/32123