Adjusting and Comparing Survival Curves by Means of an Additive Risk Model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-168

  Zahl, Per Henrik ^a,b   Aalen, Odd O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aalen's additive regression model; Adjusted survival curves; Malignant melanoma; Relative survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NORWAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031610795     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009633523532     Document Type: Article

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