A competing risk approach to the analysis of trials of alternative intra-uterine devices (IUDs) for fertility regulation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 3589-3600

  Tai, Bee Choo ^a   Peregoudov, Alexander ^b   Machin, David ^c,d  

^a NMRC Clinical Trials & Epidemiology Research Unit   (Singapore)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; TECHNIQUE; UTERUS BLEEDING;

CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; LIFE TABLES; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035892703     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1079     Document Type: Article

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