Comparison between two partial likelihood approaches for the competing risks model with missing cause of failure

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-40

  Lu, Kaifeng ^a   Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard; Martingale; Missing at random; Semiparametric efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14944350123     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-004-5638-0     Document Type: Article

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