On the issue of 'multiple' first failures in competing risks analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2243-2255

  Tai, Bee Choo ^a,f   White, Ian R ^b   Gebski, Val ^c   Machin, David ^d,e  

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

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f National Medical Research Council   (Singapore)

Author keywords

'Tied' first failure; Competing risks

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; METHOTREXATE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSARCOMA; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OSTEOSARCOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0037102911     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1208     Document Type: Article

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