Attributable risk function in the proportional hazards model for censored time-to-event

Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-529

  Chen, Ying Qing ^a   Hu, Chengcheng ^b   Wang, Yan ^c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributable fraction; Epidemiologic methods; HIV AIDS prevention; Population etiologic fraction; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TIME;

BIOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 33749605990     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxj023     Document Type: Article

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