Method of medians for lifetime data with Weibull models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1993-2009

  He, Xuming ^a   Fung, Wing K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0033566872     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990815)18:15<1993::AID-SIM165>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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