Analysis of recurrent events: Application to a clinical trial of colony stimulating factor with the endpoint of febrile neutropenia

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 17-18, 1999, Pages 2409-2420

  Matsui, Shigeyuki ^a   Ohashi, Yasuo ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033619120     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990915/30)18:17/18<2409::AID-SIM265>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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