The shape of the hazard function in cervical cancer survival

Journal of Biological Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 221-233

  Zorin, A V ^a   Tsodikov, A D ^b   Zharlnov, G M ^a   Yakovlev, A Y ^b  

^a Russian Center for Research in Radiological and Surgical Technologies   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cure probability; Hazard function; Mechanistic survival models; Nonparametric estimation; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345820103     PISSN: 02183390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218339001000360     Document Type: Article

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