Estimating treatment effects on the marginal recurrent event mean in the presence of a terminating event

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-477

  Schaubel, Douglas E ^a   Zhang, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Imputation; Inverse weighting; Marginal mean; Multivariate survival analysis; Semiparametric methods

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DONOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECURRENCE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957020673     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-009-9149-x     Document Type: Article

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