Regression models for relative survival

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-64

  Dickman, Paul W ^a   Sloggett, Andy ^b   Hills, Michael ^e   Hakulinen, Timo ^c,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Excess mortality; Net survival; Registry; Regression; Relative survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATE CANCER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346025735     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1597     Document Type: Article

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