Estimating the mean hazard ratio parameters for clustered survival data with random clusters

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2009-2020

  Cai, Jianwen ^a   Zhou, Haibo ^a   Davis, C E ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HAZARD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; SAMPLE; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENALAPRIL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030776868     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970915)16:17<2009::AID-SIM606>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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