Mixture cure model with random effects for the analysis of a multi-center tonsil cancer study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-223

  Peng, Yingwei ^a,b   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Gaussian quadrature; Importance sampling; Maximum likelihood estimation; Rejection sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME; TONSIL CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78650938718     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4098     Document Type: Article

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