Functional Form Diagnostics for Cox's Proportional Hazards Model

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-84

  León, Larry F ^a   Tsai, Chih Ling ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Box Tidwell transformation; Cox model; Functional form; Goodness of fit; Kolmogorov Smirnov; Residual plot; Survival analysis; Truncated mean survival

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; BOX-TIDWELL TRANSFORMATION; COX MODEL; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GOODNESS OF FIT; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; RESIDUAL PLOT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRUNCATED MEAN; TRUNCATED MEAN SURVIVAL;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIOMETRY; REGRESSION;

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 12144290124     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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