Modelling tumour biology-progression relationships in screening trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1872-1884

  Ghosh, Debashis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive risk model; Censoring; Interval censoring; Monotonicity; Non regular asymptotics; Order restricted inference

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPUTUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744795963     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2363     Document Type: Article

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