Analyzing length-biased data with semiparametric transformation and accelerated failure time models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 487, 2009, Pages 1192-1202

  Shen, Yu ^a   Ning, Jing ^a   Qin, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time models; Estimating equation; Informative censoring; Length biased sampling; Prevalent cohort; Right censored data; Transformation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349761736     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08614     Document Type: Article

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