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A Sexual Partnership Duration: Characterizing Sampling Conditions That Permit unbiased Estimation of Survivorship and Effect on It of Covariates. 性伙伴关系持续时间:描述允许无偏估计生存和协变量对其影响的抽样条件。

Research & reviews. Journal of statistics and mathematical sciences Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Epub Date: 2018-05-18

Yared Gurmu, Jing Qian, Victor De Gruttola

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