Comparing two crossing hazard rates by Cox proportional hazards modelling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 375-391

  Liu, Kejian ^a   Qiu, Peihua ^b   Sheng, Jun ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Covariates; Likelihood ratio test; Power; Proportional hazards regression; Resampling techniques; Survival analysis; Treatment effects; Zinc nasal spray

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ZINC;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROCESS MODEL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMMON COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ZINC;

EID: 33846205573     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2544     Document Type: Article

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