Estimating number of events from the Kaplan-Meier curve for incorporation in a literature-based meta-analysis: What you don't see you can't get

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 886-892

  Duchateau, Luc ^a   Collette, Laurence ^a   Sylvester, Richard ^a   Pignon, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Bias; Censoring; Kaplan Meier curve; Literature based and individual patient based meta analysis; Mantel Haenszel test; Odds ratio; Time to event meta analysis

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT;

BIAS; CENSORING; KAPLAN-MEIER; KAPLAN-MEIER CURVE; LITERATURE-BASED AND INDIVIDUAL PATIENT-BASED META-ANALYSE; MANTEL-HAENSZEL TEST; META-ANALYSIS; ODD RATIOS; TIME TO EVENTS; TIME-TO-EVENT META-ANALYSE;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033850939     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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