Models for survival data from cancer prevention studies

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

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 467-477

  Sinha, Debajyoti ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Chen, Ming Hui ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention trial; Cure rate model; Lagged regression model; Poisson process; Relapse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036020893     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00345     Document Type: Article

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