Loss to Follow-Up as a Competing Risk in an Observational Study of HIV-1 Incidence
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Loss to Follow-Up as a Competing Risk in an Observational Study of HIV-1 Incidence
OBJECTIVE Conventional survival estimates may be biased if loss to follow-up (LTF) is associated with the outcome of interest. Our goal was to assess whether the association between sexual risk behavior and HIV-1 acquisition changed after accounting for LTF with competing risks regression. METHODS HIV-1-seronegative women who enrolled in a Kenyan sex worker cohort from 1993-2007 were followed...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059480