Vertical modeling: A pattern mixture approach for competing risks modeling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1190-1205

  Nicolaie, M A ^a,b   Van Houwelingen, Hans C ^a   Putter, H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

Dose response; Regression models; Restricted cubic splines; SAS macro

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951593746     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3844     Document Type: Article

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