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Recurrent events

Everything Red Door Analytics has published on recurrent events — the packages that fit it, the tools that show it, the tutorials that work it through, and where it decided something.

The same event happening to the same person more than once — a hospital admission, a relapse, a fracture. A survival analysis keeps the first and discards the rest; these methods count the burden.

A narrower method under survival analysis.

Recurrent events: Each row is one person: the dots are events, the tick is when follow-up ends.
Each row is one person: the dots are events, the tick is when follow-up ends. A survival analysis keeps the first dot in every row and discards the rest; the curve underneath counts all of them, which is why it climbs instead of falling.
Fit it1
merlinOpen source, in R and Stata. Each page states what has shipped and what is in build.
Worked through2
Joint frailty models for recurrent and terminal events Three-level survival models: IPD meta-analysis of recurrent events
The evidence2
From our publications.
Where it decided something1
Counting recurrent events when death gets in the way

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