Hierarchical Bayes Models for the Progression of HIV Infection Using Longitudinal CD4 T-Cell Numbers
利用纵向CD4 T细胞数量研究HIV感染进展的层级贝叶斯模型
Taking the absolute number of CD4 T-cells as a marker of disease progression for persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we model longitudinal series of such counts for a sample of 327 subjects in the San Francisco Men's Health Study (Waves 1–8, excluding zidovudine cases). We conduct a fully Bayesian analysis of these data. We employ individual level nonlinear models incorporating such critical features as incomplete and unbalanced data, population…