Attribution of tumour lethality and estimation of the time to onset of occult tumours in the absence of cause-of-death information

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-169

  Ahn, Hongshik ^a   Moon, Hojin ^a   Kodell, Ralph L ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Competing risk; Incidental tumour; Interval sacrifice; Likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354996     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00185     Document Type: Article

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