Double Inverse-Weighted Estimation of Cumulative Treatment Effects Under Nonproportional Hazards and Dependent Censoring

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-38

  Schaubel, Douglas E ^a   Wei, Guanghui ^b  

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

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative hazard; Dependent censoring; Inverse weighting; Relative risk; Restricted mean lifetime; Survival analysis; Treatment effect

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SAMPLING;

CUMULATIVE HAZARD; DEPENDENT CENSORING; INVERSE WEIGHTING; MEAN LIFETIME; MEDICAL STUDIES; NONPROPORTIONAL; RELATIVE RISKS; RESTRICTED MEAN LIFETIME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

HAZARDS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79952581823     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01449.x     Document Type: Article

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