A permutation test for a weighted Kaplan-Meier estimator with application to the nutritional prevention of cancer trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-347

  Frankel, Paul H ^a   Reid, Mary E ^b   Marshall, James R ^b  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Loss of power; Nonparametric; Permutation test; Power; Proportional hazards; Selenium; Weighted Kaplan Meier

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; LUNG CANCER; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; YEAST;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELENIUM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YEAST, DRIED;

EID: 34248536273     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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