Testing Equality of Cause-Specific Hazard Rates Corresponding to m Competing Risks among K Groups

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-161

  Kulathinal, S B ^a   Gasbarra, Dario ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard; Competing risks; Counting processes; Cumulative incidence function; Martingale limit theorem

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036617143     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014887507027     Document Type: Article

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