Reweighting estimators for cox regression with missing covariates

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 487, 2009, Pages 1155-1167

  Xu, Qiang ^a   Paik, Myunghee Cho ^b   Luo, Xiaodong ^c   Tsai, Wei Yann ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Missing covariate; Proportional hazards model; Weighted estimating equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349777911     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm07172     Document Type: Article

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