Model-based prediction of CD4 cells counts in HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Northwest Ethiopia: A flexible mixed effects approach

• Tadesse Awoke Ayele ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tawoke7@gmail.com

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1839-3522

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• Alemayehu Worku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Yigzaw Kebede,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Khangelani Zuma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Adetayo Kasim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

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• Ziv Shkedy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation I-BioStat, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

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