Modeling biological rhythms in failure time data |
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| Authors: | Naser B Elkum James D Myles |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Scientific Computing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia;(2) Clinical Statistics, Pfizer Global Research and Development (PGRD), Ann Arbor Laboratories, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA |
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| Abstract: | Background The human body exhibits a variety of biological rhythms. There are patterns that correspond, among others, to the daily wake/sleep cycle, a yearly seasonal cycle and, in women, the menstrual cycle. Sine/cosine functions are often used to model biological patterns for continuous data, but this model is not appropriate for analysis of biological rhythms in failure time data. |
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