Modelling cure rates using the Gompertz model with covariate information

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 831-839

  Gieser, Peter W ^a   Chang, Myron N ^a   Rao, P V ^a   Shuster, Jonathan J ^a   Pullen, Jeanette ^b  

^a Pediat Oncol Grp Stat Office   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032580319     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980430)17:8<831::AID-SIM790>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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