Estimation of post-lead-time survival under dependence between lead-time and post-lead-time survival

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-162

  Xu, Jian Lun ^a   Fagerstrom, Richard M ^b   Prorok, Philip C ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033616358     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990130)18:2<155::AID-SIM12>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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