Effects of model misspecification on tests of no randomized treatment effect arising from Cox's proportional hazards model

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

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 745-757

  DiRienzo, A G ^a   Lagakos, S W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Martingale; Misspecified model; Model based variance estimator; Partial likelihood; Robust variance estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035540918     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00310     Document Type: Article

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