Estimating cumulative treatment effects in the presence of nonproportional hazards

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 724-732

  Wei, Guanghui ^a   Schaubel, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence bands; Cumulative hazards; Observational studies; Stratification; Survival analysis; Time dependent effect

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS;

CONFIDENCE BANDS; COX'S REGRESSION MODEL; CUMULATIVE HAZARD; MEDICAL STUDIES; NONPROPORTIONAL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

SAMPLING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIMULATION;

EID: 49749084682     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00947.x     Document Type: Article

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