Modeling Tumor Growth with Random Onset

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 897-906

  Albert, Paul S ^a   Shih, Joanna H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Discrete survival; Gompertzian growth; Linear mixed models; Nonlinear mixed models; Shared random effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CLONING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANIMAL STUDIES; DISCRETE SURVIVAL; GOMPERTZIAN GROWTH; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; NONLINEAR MIXED MODEL; RANDOM EFFECTS; SHARED RANDOM EFFECT; SMALL ANIMAL STUDY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUMES;

TUMORS;

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0347363888     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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