Analysing multicentre competing risks data with a mixed proportional hazards model for the subdistribution

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 4267-4278

  Katsahian, Sandrine ^a,b   Resche Rigon, Matthieu ^a,b   Chevret, Sylvie ^a,b   Porcher, Raphaël ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Centre effect; Competing risks; Cumulative incidence function; Fine and Gray model; Frailty model

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER STATISTICS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845868557     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2684     Document Type: Article

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