Estimating and testing for center effects in competing risks

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1608-1617

  Katsahian, Sandrine ^a,b   Boudreau, Christian ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Frailties; Likelihood ratio test; Subdistribution hazard; Test of center effects; Wald test

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CALCULATION; GAUSSIAN FRAILTY MODEL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79956070532     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4132     Document Type: Article

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