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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2013 Oct 16;24(1):31–39. doi: 10.1007/s11136-013-0550-2

Appendix Table 2.

Model notation

Symbol Meaning
T The time-to-event outcomes: HSCT-related mortality and competing risk disease-related mortality
Y Observed HRQL
[T, Y] The joint probability distribution of T and Y
η The random trajectory, interpreted as the latent “true” HRQL
[T | η] The conditional distribution of T given eta
λ Cause-specific hazard
λ0 Baseline hazard
γ, α Coefficients of the survival submodel
ε Error term of the longitudinal submodel