A new estimation method for the semiparametric accelerated failure time mixture cure model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3157-3171

  Zhang, Jiajia ^a   Peng, Yingwei ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; EM algorithm; Logistic regression; Mixture cure model

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEWFOUNDLAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347391676     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2748     Document Type: Article

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