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The Impact of Dementia and Sex on the Disablement in the Elderly

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Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health

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The paper considers the analysis of disablement process of the elderly using the general path model with noise. The impact of dementia and sex on degradation is analysed. These joint model for survival and longitudinal data is discussed.

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Barberger-Gateau, P., Bagdonavičius, V., Nikulin, M., Zdorova-Cheminade, O. (2006). The Impact of Dementia and Sex on the Disablement in the Elderly. In: Nikulin, M., Commenges, D., Huber, C. (eds) Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26023-4_4

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