An extended Kaplan-Meier estimator and its applications

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 971-982

  Strauss, David ^a,b   Shavelle, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LIFE TABLE; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032525018     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980515)17:9<971::AID-SIM786>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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