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JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
Volume 59, Issue 8, Pages 706-710Publisher
B M J PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.030759
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Study objective: The purpose of this paper is to give an overview and comparison of different easily applicable statistical techniques to analyse recurrent event data. Setting: These techniques include naive techniques and longitudinal techniques such as Cox regression for recurrent events, generalised estimating equations (GEE), and random coefficient analysis. The different techniques are illustrated with a dataset from a randomised controlled trial regarding the treatment of lateral epicondylitis. Main results: The use of different statistical techniques leads to different results and different conclusions regarding the effectiveness of the different intervention strategies. Conclusions: If you are interested in a particular short term or long term result, simple naive techniques are appropriate. However, if the development of a particular outcome is of interest, statistical techniques that consider the recurrent events and additionally corrects for the dependency of the observations are necessary.
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