Monte Carlo estimation of extrapolation of quality-adjusted survival for follow-up studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1627-1640

  Hwang, Jing Shiang ^a   Wang, Jung Der ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; LIFE TABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN;

EID: 0033565316     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990715)18:13<1627::AID-SIM159>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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