Relative risk and acceleration in lung cancer

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3511-3517

  Berry, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Lung cancer; Proportional hazards; Relative risk; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34547414543     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2783     Document Type: Article

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