Proportional Hazards Regression for the Analysis of Clustered Survival Data from Case-Cohort Studies

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-28

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Schaubel, Douglas E ^a   Kalbfleisch, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Case cohort study; Clustered data; Cox model; Estimating equation; Robust variance; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; HAZARDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CASE-COHORT STUDY; CLUSTERED DATUM; COHORT STUDIES; COX MODEL; ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; FAILURE TIME DATA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; REGRESSION PARAMETERS; ROBUST VARIANCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952577177     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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