Comparing Sub-Survival Functions in a Competing Risks Model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-97

  Carriere, K C ^a   Kochar, Subhash C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard rate; Competing risks; Cumulative incidence function; Nelson Aalen estimator of cumulative hazard; Ordered alternatives

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIATION INJURY; RISK; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034151495     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007066020238     Document Type: Review

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