Dealing with competing risks: Testing covariates and calculating sample size

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 3317-3324

  Pintilie, Melania ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Cox proportional hazards model; Power; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0037202545     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1271     Document Type: Article

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