Cumulative viral load as a predictor of CD4+ T-cell response to antiretroviral therapy using Bayesian statistical models

• Joseph B. Sempa ,

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

  * E-mail: sempaj@sun.ac.za

  Affiliation South African Department of Science and Technology (DST)/ National Research Foundation (NRF) Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1062-0417

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• Theresa M. Rossouw,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4066-922X

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• Emmanuel Lesaffre,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Martin Nieuwoudt

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBE), Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa

  Affiliation South African Department of Science and Technology (DST)/ National Research Foundation (NRF) Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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