Induced smoothing for rank regression with censored survival times

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 828-836

  Brown, B M ^a   Wang, You Gan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Censored data; Covariance estimates; Gehan Wilcoxon estimates; Induced smoothing; Monotone estimating functions; Rank regression; Standard errors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846847723     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2576     Document Type: Article

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