Estimating the survival function in the proportional hazards regression model: A study of the small sample size properties

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Andersen, Per Kragh ^a   Bentzon, Michael Weis ^b   Klein, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Censored data; Confidence interval; Monte carlo simulation; Product integral; Proportional hazards; Survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030536645     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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