Improved logrank-type tests for survival data using adaptive weights

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-38

  Yang, Song ^a   Prentice, Ross ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Proportional and nonproportional hazards; Survival analysis; Time varying treatment effect; Weighted logrank tests

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WEIGHTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; NONPROPORTIONAL; OPTIMALITY; PROPORTIONAL AND NONPROPORTIONAL HAZARD; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING TREATMENT EFFECT; TREATMENT EFFECTS; WEIGHTED LOGRANK TEST;

HAZARDS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; HEALTH IMPACT; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHM; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77949663385     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01243.x     Document Type: Article

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