Information bounds for Cox regression models with missing data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 723-753

  Nan, Bin ^a   Emond, Mary J ^b   Wellner, Jon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Case cohort design; Cox model; Efficient influence function; Efficient score; Information bound; Integral equation; Least favorable direction; Martingale operators; Mean residual life operators; Missing at random; Regression models; Scores; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944263938     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000157     Document Type: Article

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