A cautionary note on the use of the Grønnesby and Borgan goodness-of-fit test for the Cox proportional hazards model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 283-291

  May, Susanne ^a   Hosmer, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

grouping strategy; lack of fit; risk score; score test; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4043137877     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LIDA.0000036393.29224.1d     Document Type: Article

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