Frailty modelling for the excess hazard

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1573-1585

  Zahl, Per Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030745123     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970730)16:14<1573::AID-SIM585>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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