A multiple imputation approach to Cox regression with interval-censored data

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 199-203

  Pan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normal data augmentation; NPMLE; Poor man's data augmentation; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ASYMPTOTIC NORMAL DATA AUGMENTATION; ASYMPTOTICS; CENSORED DATA; COX REGRESSION; DATA AUGMENTATION; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; NPMLE; POOR MAN DATA AUGMENTATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; HAZARD; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034100673     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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