Estimating the growth rates of primary lung tumours from samples with missing measurements

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1117-1134

  Gorlova, Olga Y ^a   Peng, Bo ^b   Yankelevitz, David ^c   Henschke, Claudia ^c   Kimmel, Marek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth rate; Lung cancer; Screening; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; SAMPLE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR GROWTH;

CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 15844403823     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1987     Document Type: Article

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