Schaubel, Douglas E.; Cai, Jianwen - 2005
In biomedical studies, the event of interest is often recurrent and within-subject events cannot usually be assumed … independent. In addition, individuals within a cluster might not be independent; for example, in multi-center or familial studies …-parametric proportional rates/means models for clustered recurrent event data. The first model contains a baseline rate function which is …