The effects of misclassification of the actual cause of death in competing risks analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1557-1566

  Ebrahimi, Nader ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK;

EID: 0030015392     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960730)15:14<1557::AID-SIM286>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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