Effects of model misspecification in estimating covariate effects in survival analysis for small sample sizes

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-192

  Li, Yi Hwei ^b   Klein, John P ^b   Moeschberger, M L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Censoring; Cox proportional hazards regression; Parametric regression; Robustness, model misspecification; Small sample size power

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TESTING;

BASELINE DISTRIBUTION; CENSORING; COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARD REGRESSION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MODEL MISSPECIFICATION; PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS ASSUMPTION; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE POWER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WALD TESTS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030197153     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(96)88029-7     Document Type: Article

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