Mixture models for cancer survival analysis: Application to population-based data with covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 441-454

  De Angelis, R ^a   Capocaccia, R ^a   Hakulinen, T ^b,c   Soderman, B ^b   Verdecchia, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^c Department of Public Health ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COVARIANCE; FINLAND; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; CANCER; CAUSES OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EUROPE; FINLAND; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NORTHERN EUROPE; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SCANDINAVIA; SURVIVORSHIP--DETERMINANTS;

AGE FACTORS; BIOMETRY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033611747     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990228)18:4<441::AID-SIM23>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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