Sample size considerations for the evaluation of prognostic factors in survival analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 441-452

  Schmoor, Claudia ^a   Sauerbrei, Willi ^a   Schumacher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PLOIDY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PLOIDIES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034728370     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000229)19:4<441::AID-SIM349>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Conference Paper

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