Missing cause of death information in the analysis of survival data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 2191-2201

  Andersen, Janet ^a   Goetghebeur, Els ^b   Ryan, Louise ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COVARIANCE; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029829610     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961030)15:20<2191::AID-SIM358>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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