Likelihood-based methods for missing covariates in the cox proportional hazards model

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 453, 2001, Pages 292-302

  Herring, Amy H ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox model; EM algorithm; Gibbs sampling; Missing at random; Monte Carlo EM algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842715135     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501750332866     Document Type: Article

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