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Understanding variation in disease risk: the elusive concept of frailty

The concept of frailty plays a major role in the statistical field of survival analysis. Frailty variation refers to differences in risk between individuals which go beyond known or measured risk factors. In other words, frailty variation is unobserved heterogeneity. Although understanding frailty i...

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Autores principales: Aalen, Odd O, Valberg, Morten, Grotmol, Tom, Tretli, Steinar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25501685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyu192