The analysis of survival data with a non-susceptible fraction and dual censoring mechanisms

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 3249-3262

  Gagnon, David R ^a,b   Glickman, Mark E ^c   Myers, Richard H ^d   Cupples, L Adrienne ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Boston VA Healthcare Center   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Censoring; Missing data; Survival analysis; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ONSET AGE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROBABILITY; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

AGE OF ONSET; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141617392     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1568     Document Type: Article

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