An empirical comparison of two semi-parametric approaches for the estimation of covariate effects from multivariate failure time data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2049-2062

  Gao, Sujuan ^a   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Regenstrief Institute for Health Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030861526     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970930)16:18<2049::AID-SIM641>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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