A cautionary note on segmenting a cyclical covariate by minimum p-value search

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 451-461

  Heinzl, Harald ^a   Tempfer, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cyclical covariate; Minimum p value approach; Multiple testing problem; Timing of breast cancer surgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER;

EID: 0035115869     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(00)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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