An overview of statistical methods for multiple failure time data in clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 833-839

  Wei, L J ^a   Glidden, David V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 1842293418     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970430)16:8<833::AID-SIM538>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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