Statistical Modelling of Breastfeeding Data
This thesis addresses some key methodological problems in statistical modelling of breastfeeding data. Meta-analysis techniques were used to analyse aggregated breastfeeding data. Generalised linear mixed model and an extended Cox model were used with time-varying exposures to analyse longitudinal a...
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Curtin University
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75646 |
| Summary: | This thesis addresses some key methodological problems in statistical modelling of breastfeeding data. Meta-analysis techniques were used to analyse aggregated breastfeeding data. Generalised linear mixed model and an extended Cox model were used with time-varying exposures to analyse longitudinal and time-to-event breastfeeding data, respectively. Shared frailty models were applied to correlated breastfeeding duration data controlling for heterogeneity. A novel two-part mixed-effects model was proposed for modelling clustered time-to-event breastfeeding data with clumping at zero. |
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