Modelling relative survival using transformation methods

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2463-2477

  Price, Dionne L ^a   Manatunga, Amita K ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive hazards model; Relative survival; Transformations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE COURSE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344657165     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1832     Document Type: Article

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