Comparing survival of a sample to that of a standard population

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 1434-1439

  Finkelstein, Dianne M ^a   Muzikansky, Alona ^a   Schoenfeld, David A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PAGET'S DISEASE, EXTRAMAMMARY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0141540686     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djg052     Document Type: Article

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