Covariates-dependent confidence intervals for the difference or ratio of two median survival times

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2203-2213

  Chen, Yuh Ing ^a   Chang, Yu Mei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Median survival time; Right censored data; Stratified Cox model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL TIME;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 34247589694     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2669     Document Type: Article

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