Competing risks with frailty models when treatment affects only one failure type

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 467-471

  Faraggi, David ^a   Korn, Edward L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard ratio; Copula; Crude cumulative incidence curve; Hazard ratio; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944382046     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.2.467     Document Type: Article

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