Variable selection in the Cox regression model with covariates missing at random

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-104

  Garcia, Ramon I ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Zhu, Hongtu ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

ALASSO; Missing data; Partial likelihood; Penalized likelihood; Proportional hazards model; SCAD; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING;

ALASSO; COVARIATES; COX'S REGRESSION MODEL; MISSING DATA; PARTIAL LIKELIHOODS; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED-LIKELIHOOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; SCAD; VARIABLES SELECTIONS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRINKAGE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77949733309     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01274.x     Document Type: Article

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