Applying the Cox proportional hazards model for analysis of latency data with interval censoring

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 2737-2747

  Goggins, William B ^a   Finkelstein, Dianne M ^a,b   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DENSITY; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; LATENT PERIOD; METHODOLOGY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMOPHILIA A; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033619524     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991030)18:20<2737::AID-SIM199>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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