Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya, mostly affecting the rural poor, especially young children and pregnant women. Most clinical studies in malaria involve a number of equally important endpoints. This would normally portend challenges in relation to issues about the study design, analysis of the data and interpretation of the results. The majority of malaria related clinical studies do not factor in or experience difficulties in analyzing recurrent events analysis. It is desirable to utilize multiple event times in the analysis procedures to obtain efficient inferences for therapeutic effect over time and to account for the dependence of the recurrent events in a
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