Joint modelling of cause-specific hazard functions with cubic splines: An application to a large series of breast cancer patients

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 243-262

  Boracchi, Patrizia ^a   Biganzoli, Elia ^b   Marubini, Ettore ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Competing risks; GLMs; Hazard regression; Splines

Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARDS; SURGERY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER;

ONCOLOGY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0242586102     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00122-6     Document Type: Article

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