A robust method for proportional hazards regression

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1033-1047

  Minder, C E ^a   Bednarski, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TECHNIQUE; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029979078     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960530)15:10<1033::AID-SIM215>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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