Dynamic Cox modelling based on fractional polynomials: Time-variations in gastric cancer prognosis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1163-1180

  Berger, Ursula ^a   Schäfer, Juliane ^b   Ulm, Kurt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cox model; Fractional polynomials; PH assumption; Time varying effects

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STOMACH CANCER; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0037446009     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1411     Document Type: Review

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