| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| DEDICATION | 第6-7页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第7-8页 |
| Table of Contents | 第8-14页 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY AND ELEMENTARY STATISTICS | 第14-24页 |
| 1.1 INTRODUCTION | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2 The Burden of repeated hospitalizations due to Malaria in-fections and HIV/AIDS | 第16-18页 |
| 1.2.1 The effect of age on immunity to malaria | 第17-18页 |
| 1.3 Trends in HIV/AIDS infections | 第18-19页 |
| 1.4 Rationale of this study | 第19-20页 |
| 1.5 Study Area and Population | 第20-21页 |
| 1.6 Study Design | 第21-24页 |
| 2 LITERATURE REVIEW , FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND DEFINTIONS | 第24-37页 |
| 2.1 Literature review | 第24-28页 |
| 2.2 Models and features of Recurrent event Processes | 第28-33页 |
| 2.2.1 Poisson Process models | 第29-31页 |
| 2.2.2 Proportional intensity models | 第31-32页 |
| 2.2.3 Frailty models for heterogeneity | 第32-33页 |
| 2.3 Estimation | 第33-36页 |
| 2.3.1 Likelihood estimation | 第33-34页 |
| 2.3.2 Quasi-likelihood estimation and other moment methods | 第34-36页 |
| 2.4 Elementary Statistics | 第36-37页 |
| 3 ANALYSIS OF DATA FOR TIME AT PARTICULAR EVENTS AND COUNTS AT THE END-OF FOLLOW UP | 第37-64页 |
| 3.1 Introduction | 第37-48页 |
| 3.2 Modeling random effects | 第48-55页 |
| 3.3 Illustration and discussion | 第55-64页 |
| 4 THE ANALYSIS OF REPEATED EVENT PANEL DATA AND HAZARD CONSIDERATIONS | 第64-81页 |
| 4.1 Itroduction | 第64页 |
| 4.2 Estimation | 第64-71页 |
| 4.2.1 Estimation Based on Panel Data | 第69-71页 |
| 4.2.2 The Efficiency of Quasi-Likelihood Relative to Like-lihood Estimation | 第71页 |
| 4.3 Efficiency of Panel Data vs. Count Data | 第71-72页 |
| 4.4 Analyzing the hazard of the repeated Hospitalization | 第72-81页 |
| 4.4.1 Unobserved Heterogeneity as a Function of covariates | 第76-77页 |
| 4.4.2 Modeling the Repeated events as a Markov Process and as competing risks | 第77-81页 |
| 5 TRANSFORMING THE DATA WHEN MoDELLING RE-PEATED EVENTS DATA | 第81-91页 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 第81-87页 |
| 5.2 Illustration and discussion | 第87-91页 |
| 6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUR-THER RESEARCH | 第91-95页 |
| 6.1 Introduction | 第91-93页 |
| 6.2 Recommendations for further research | 第93-95页 |
| 7 REFERENCES | 第95-104页 |
