Goodness of fit of relative survival models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 3911-3925

  Stare, Janez ^a   Pohar, Maja ^a   Henderson, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Model diagnostics; Relative survival regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 30944464784     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2414     Document Type: Article

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