Hazard function estimators: A simulation study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3075-3088

  Hess, Kenneth R ^a   Serachitopol, Dan M ^a   Brown, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033619699     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991130)18:22<3075::AID-SIM244>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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