The concordance index C and the Mann-Whitney parameter Pr(X>Y) with randomly censored data

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 467-474

  Koziol, James A ^a   Jia, Zhenyu ^b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

c Index; Random censorship model; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

C-INDEX; CENSORED DATA; CENSORING DISTRIBUTION; CONCORDANCE INDEX; MANN-WHITNEY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; RANDOM CENSORSHIP MODEL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 68249125688     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200800228     Document Type: Article

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