Use of Irwin's restricted mean as an index for comparing survival in different treatment groups - Interpretation and power considerations

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-167

  Karrison, Theodore G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

censoring; covariates; power; restricted mean

Indexed keywords

PENICILLAMINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; PENICILLAMINE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030925038     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(96)00089-X     Document Type: Article

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