Incomplete covariates in the Cox model with applications to biological marker data

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

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 467-484

  Leong, Traci ^a,b,e   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^c,d   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Monte Carlo methods; Non ignorably missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648279     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00248     Document Type: Article

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