Optimal weight functions for marginal proportional hazards analysis of clustered failure time data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-19

  Gray, Robert J ^a   Li, Yi ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Archimedean copula; Conditional martingale covariance rate; Estimating equations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036519099     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013568114539     Document Type: Article

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