Buckley-James-type estimator with right-censored and length-biased data

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1369-1378

  Ning, Jing ^a   Qin, Jing ^b   Shen, Yu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Buckley James estimator; Estimating equation; Length biased sampling; Prevalent cohort

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ACCELERATED FAILURE TIME MODEL; BIASED SAMPLING; BUCKLEY-JAMES ESTIMATOR; COHORT STUDIES; ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; FAILURE TIME; LENGTH-BIASED DATA; LENGTH-BIASED SAMPLING; PREVALENT COHORT; TIME MODELING;

SAMPLING;

ALGORITHM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL;

EID: 83655183094     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01568.x     Document Type: Article

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