Imputation methods for doubly censored HIV data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1245-1257

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Chaloner, Kathryn ^b   Stapleton, Jack T ^c  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cox regression model; Interval censoring; Kaplan Meier curve; Logrank test

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350173470     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802255618     Document Type: Article

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