Choice of Parametric Accelerated Life and Proportional Hazards Models for Survival Data: Asymptotic Results

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 375-393

  Hutton, J L ^a   Monaghan, P F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerated life models; Bias; Model misspecification; Parametric accelerated failure time models; Parametric proportional hazards models; Power; Survival data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036884264     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020570922072     Document Type: Article

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