Analyses of cumulative incidence functions via non-parametric multiple imputation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 5709-5724

  Ruan, Ping K ^a   Gray, Robert J ^b  

^a CENTER FOR BIOSTATISTICS IN AIDS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring complete data; Competing risks; Missing data; Multiple imputation; Partial likelihood estimation; Penalized spline

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58749115237     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3402     Document Type: Article

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