Semiparametric inferences for association with semi-competing risks data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2059-2070

  Ghosh, Debashis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capula; Correlated failure time; Dependent censoring; Kendall's tau; Multivariate survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; LEUKEMIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33745455004     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2327     Document Type: Article

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