Comparison of goodness of fit tests for the cox proportional hazards model

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 187-206

  Song, Hae Hiang ^a,b   Lee, Sunho ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cox model; Goodness of fit tests; Proportional hazards; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244434223     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910008813609     Document Type: Article

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