Sensitivity analysis for informative censoring in parametric survival models

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-91

  Siannis, Fotios ^a   Copas, John ^b   Lu, Guobing ^c  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Informative censoring; Proportional hazard models; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644445656     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxh019     Document Type: Article

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