Understanding competing risks: A simulation point of view

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Allignol, Arthur ^a,b   Schumacher, Martin ^b   Wanner, Christoph ^c   Drechsler, Christiane ^c   Beyersmann, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957811079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-86     Document Type: Article

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