Meta-analysis of pairs of survival curves under heterogeneity: A Poisson correlated gamma-frailty approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 3782-3797

  Fiocco, M ^a   Putter, H ^a   Van Houwelingen, J C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composite likelihood; Counting process; Frailty; Mixed models; Multiple outcomes; Multivariate meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAZARD; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALGORITHMS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449097833     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3752     Document Type: Article

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