A mixed-effects two-part model for twin-data and an application on identifying important factors associated with extremely preterm children's health disorders.

Our recent studies identifying factors significantly associated with the positive child health index (PCHI) in a mixed cohort of preterm-born singletons, twins, and triplets posed some analytic and modeling challenges. The PCHI transforms the total number of health disorders experienced (of the elev...

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Main Authors: Baiming Zou, Hudson P Santos, James G Xenakis, Mike M O'Shea, Rebecca C Fry, Fei Zou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269630