Using the EM-Algorithm for Survival Data with Incomplete Categorical Covariates

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-14

  Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ignorable missing data; Missing at random; Non informative censoring; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LIVER TUMOR; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030323076     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00128467     Document Type: Article

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