A test for informative censoring in clustered survival data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2089-2107

  Huang, Xuelin ^a   Wolfe, Robert A ^b   Hu, Chengcheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Dependent censoring; Frailty model; Martingale residual; Positive stable distribution; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242815448     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1801     Document Type: Article

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