Proportional hazards estimate of the conditional survival function

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 667-680

  Xu, Ronghui ^a   O'Quigley, John ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional survivorship function; Cox model; Kaplan Meier integral; Multiplicative models; Partial likelihood; Proportional hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354316     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00256     Document Type: Article

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