Inference in Spline-Based Models for Multiple Time-to-Event Data, with Applications to a Breast Cancer Prevention Trial

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 859-868

  Berhane, Kiros ^a   Weissfeld, Lisa A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive models; Proportional hazards; Ridge regression; Smoothing; Splines; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DISEASES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SPLINES;

ADDITIVE MODELS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; PREVENTIVE AGENTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; RIDGE REGRESSION; SMOOTHING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAMOXIFEN; TIME TO EVENTS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TAMOXIFEN;

CANCER;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347363884     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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