Multi-state models for the analysis of time-to-event data

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-222

  Meira Machado, Luís Filipe ^a   de Uña Álvarez, Jacobo ^b   Cadarso Suárez, Carmen ^c   Andersen, Per K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DISEASE COURSE; FORECASTING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTI STATE MODEL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

BIOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55949117992     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280208092301     Document Type: Review

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