A simple hybrid variance estimator for the Kaplan-Meier survival function

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 827-851

  Borkowf, Craig B ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Greenwood variance estimator; Kaplan Meier survival function; Peto variance estimator; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

MERCAPTOPURINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKEMIA; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 15544366140     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1960     Document Type: Article

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