Testing for centre effects in multi-centre survival studies: A Monte Carlo comparison of fixed and random effects tests

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1489-1500

  Andersen, Per Kragh ^a,b   Klein, John P ^c   Zhang, Mei Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033618142     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990630)18:12<1489::aid-sim140>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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