Assessing surrogate endpoints in vaccine trials with case-cohort sampling and the Cox model

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 386-407

  Qin, Li ^a   Gilbert, Peter B ^a   Follmann, Dean ^a   Li, Dongfeng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Discrete failure time model; Missing data; Potential outcomes; Principal stratification; Surrogate marker

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950979061     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-aoas132     Document Type: Article

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