Two Modeling Strategies in Analyzing Clustered Time-to-Event Data: The Strong Heart Family Study

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Examines the use of the shared frailty and marginal Cox proportional hazards models to study associations between leukocyte telomere length and time-to-incident stroke among 4,635 American Indian study participants from tribal communities in Arizona, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Discusses effective use of data models for population genetic studies.

Heather Willmott, Caroline Gochanour, Kai Ding, et al.

Preventing Chronic Disease, 22, 240387

03/2025

Cardiovascular disease · Population health · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data · Tribal communities