Robust estimation of mean functions and treatment effects for recurrent events under event-dependent censoring and termination: application to skeletal complications in cancer metastatic to bone

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 485, 2009, Pages 60-75

  Cook, Richard J ^a   Lawless, Jerald F ^a   Lakhal Chaieb, Lajmi ^b   Lee, Ker Ai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dependent censoring; Inverse probability of censoring weights; Recurrent event; Terminal event

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350304293     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0004     Document Type: Article

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