Flexible parametric models for relative suvival, with application in coronary heart disease

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 5486-5498

  Nelson, Christopher P ^a   Lambert, Paul C ^a   Squire, Iain B ^a   Jones, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart disease; Relative survival; Restricted cubic splines; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38849120622     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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