Investigation of influential factors affecting survival rate of patients with colorectal cancer using copula function

Iranian Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 40-49

  Akhoond, M A ^a   Kazemnejad, A ^a   Hajizadeh, E ^a   Fatemi, S R ^b   Motlagh, A ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Clayton Copula; Colorectal cancer; Competing risk data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 79957467747     PISSN: 17357489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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