Confidence Bands for the Difference of Two Survival Curves under Proportional Hazards Model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 243-254

  Zhang, Mei Jie ^a   Klein, John P ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence band; Counting process; Cox regression; Martingale; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035460536     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011636407958     Document Type: Article

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