Volume 30 - Article 42 | Pages 1219–1244
Investigating healthy life expectancy using a multi-state model in the presence of missing data and misclassification
By Ardo van den Hout, Ekaterina Ogurtsova, Jutta Gampe, Fiona Matthews
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