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  • noun Plural form of covariate.

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  • Cox proportional hazards models are a subclass of statistical survival models that relate the time of an event, usually death or failure, to a number of descriptive variables known as covariates, which in this study was time to first cancer hospitalization and time to first diagnosis of dementia.

    Research Blogging - All Topics - English Walter Jessen 2010

  • Cox proportional hazards models are a subclass of statistical survival models that relate the time of an event, usually death or failure, to a number of descriptive variables known as covariates, which in this study was time to first cancer hospitalization and time to first diagnosis of dementia.

    Research Blogging - All Topics - English Walter Jessen, Highlight HEALTH 2010

  • Cox proportional hazards models are a subclass of statistical survival models that relate the time of an event, usually death or failure, to a number of descriptive variables known as covariates, which in this study was time to first cancer hospitalization and time to first diagnosis of dementia.

    The Highlight HEALTH Network 2010

  • Slide 27: Covariates  Metric independent variables, called covariates can be used to eliminate systemic errors  ANOVA becomes ANCOVA  MANOVA becomes MANCOVA 

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Arn't the statistical results only marginal correlations (controlling for other covariates) even with a theoretical model?

    Right to Work and Unemployment 2009

  • Moreover, all acceptable psychometric models are complex and attempt to control for prior teacher effects and for other covariates.

    Baltimore City test specialist recalls Rhee story Jay Mathews 2011

  • The prevalence ... [of] birth defects was significantly higher in mountaintop mining areas compared to non-mining areas [even after controlling for covariates]...

    Allen Hershkowitz: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National Research Council Should Investigate Allen Hershkowitz 2011

  • Multi-period corporate default prediction with stochastic covariates [An article from: Journal of Financial Economics] by D. Duffie

    Trying to Understand Large-Scale Fraud 2009

  • Even then, there may be other covariates that cause the relationship, rather than it being explicitly due to calculation on the MPs part.

    MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update Mark Reckons 2009

  • If you do look at the groups as treated there are much larger effects in favor of surgery which did not disappear after correction for recognized covariates.

    Archive 2006-11-01 james gaulte 2006

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