A semi-parametric accelerated failure time cure model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3235-3247

  Li, Chin Shang ^a   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Cure model; EM algorithm; Incidence; Latency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LATENT PERIOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TONSIL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0037110528     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1260     Document Type: Article

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