A Simplified Method of Calculating an Overall Goodness-of-Fit Test for the Cox Proportional Hazards Model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-120

  May, Susanne ^a   Hosmer, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Martingale residuals; Risk score; Score test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MINNESOTA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 0031605154     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009612305785     Document Type: Article

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