Summarizing differences in cumulative incidence functions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 4939-4949

  Zhang, Mei Jie ^a   Fine, Jason ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risk; Counting processes; Marginal probability function; Nonparametric measures; Time dependent summaries; Two sample problem

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; HAZARD RATIO; INCIDENCE; LOG RANK TEST; MORTALITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENCE RISK; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 56449124148     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3339     Document Type: Article

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