Competing risk analysis using R: An easy guide for clinicians

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 381-387

  Scrucca, L ^a   Santucci, A ^a   Aversa, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LEUKEMIA; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547622486     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705727     Document Type: Article

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