Inference for the proportional hazards model with misclassified discrete-valued covariates

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 324-334

  Zucker, David M ^a   Spiegelman, Donna ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors in variables; Kaplan Meier curves; Misclassification; Survival regression

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; HAZARDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COVARIATES; ERROR IN VARIABLE; KAPLAN-MEIER; KAPLAN-MEIER CURVE; MISCLASSIFICATION RATES; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SURVIVAL REGRESSION; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIBULL;

SAMPLING;

UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

HAZARD;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 2942668687     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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