Estimating covariate-adjusted log hazard ratios for multiple time intervals in clinical trials using nonparametric randomization based ANCOVA

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 232-241

  Moodie, Patricia F ^a   Saville, Benjamin R ^b   Koch, Gary G ^c   Tangen, Catherine M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of covariance; Linear models equating covariate means; Survival; Time to event; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE; DISEASE COURSE; ERROR; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

EID: 79955579633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19466315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/sbr.2010.10006     Document Type: Article

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