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Mortality by education level at late-adult ages in Turin: a survival analysis using frailty models with period and cohort approaches

OBJECTIVES: Neglecting the presence of unobserved heterogeneity in survival analysis models has been showed to potentially lead to underestimating the effect of the covariates included in the analysis. This study aimed to investigate the role of unobserved heterogeneity of frailty on the estimation...

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Autores principales: Zarulli, Virginia, Marinacci, Chiara, Costa, Giuseppe, Caselli, Graziella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3703572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23824314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002841