Frailty modelling for survival data from multi-centre clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2144-2159

  Ha, Il Do ^a   Sylvester, Richard ^b   Legrand, Catherine ^c   Mackenzie, Gilbert ^d,e  

^a Daegu Haany University   (South Korea)

^b EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d CREST   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Correlated random effects; Focussed model selection; Frailty models; Hierarchical likelihood; Prediction interval; Random treatment by centre interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79960025400     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4250     Document Type: Article

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