Accounting for bias due to a non-ignorable tracing mechanism in a retrospective breast cancer cohort study

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 324-334

  Titman, Andrew C ^a   Lancaster, Gillian A ^a   Carmichael, Katie ^b   Scutt, Diane ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Multi state model; Pseudo likelihood; Tracing bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FULL LIKEHOOD METHOD; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PSEUDO LIKEHOOD METHOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TRACING PROBABILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78651236162     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4118     Document Type: Article

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