An index approach for the Cox model with left censored covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 4502-4514

  D'Angelo, Gina ^a   Weissfeld, Lisa ^b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Detection limit; Incomplete covariate; Index approach; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 53349116785     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3285     Document Type: Article

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