An empirical comparison of statistical tests for assessing the proportional hazards assumption of Cox's model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 611-626

  Ng'andu, Nicholas H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030979983     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970330)16:6<611::AID-SIM437>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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