Simulating competing risks data in survival analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 956-971

  Beyersmann, Jan ^a,b   Latouche, Aurélien ^c   Buchholz, Anika ^a,b   Schumacher, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard; Latent failure time; Model misspecification; Multistate model; Subdistribution hazard

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD RATIO; INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; HUMAN; RISK;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 65549126449     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3516     Document Type: Article

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