Flexible hazard ratio curves for continuous predictors in multi-state models: An application to breast cancer data

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 291-314

  Cadarso Suárez, Carmen ^a,e   Meira Machado, Luís ^b   Kneib, Thomas ^c   Gude, Francisco ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d Pediatric Nutrition Research Group Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^e Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela IDIS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cox model; hazard ratio; multi state model; penalized splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957312449     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0801000303     Document Type: Article

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