The Protective Impact of a Covariate on Competing Failures with an Example from a Bone Marrow Transplantation Study

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-122

  Di Serio, Clelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone Marrow Transplantation; Competing risks; Dependence; Frailty; Protectivity

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LIFE TABLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; RISK; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0030630039     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009672300875     Document Type: Article

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