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In an attempt to provide tools for assessing hospital utilization, this paper extends well-known models for recurrent events to address non-negligible event duration and presents a procedure for estimating the model parameters. The model extension is natural and easy to understand. Asymptotic properties of the associated inferences are derived adapting the well-developed methods based on the counting process formulation. Several specifications of the proposed modeling are illustrated with the hospitalization records of childhood cancer survivors from a health care insurance system that motivated this research. The usefulness and robustness of the proposed approach is demonstrated numerically via simulation.
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Hu, X.J., Lorenzi, M., Spinelli, J.J. et al. Analysis of recurrent events with non-negligible event duration, with application to assessing hospital utilization. Lifetime Data Anal 17, 215–233 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10985-010-9183-8
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