Evaluation of long-term survival: Use of diagnostics and robust estimators with Cox's proportional hazards model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2763-2780

  Valsecchi, M G ^a   Silvestri, D ^a   Sasieni, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OVARY CANCER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030475522     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961230)15:24<2763::AID-SIM319>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Conference Paper

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