Predicting the absolute risk of dying from colorectal cancer and from other causes using population-based cancer registry data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 489-500

  Lee, Minjung ^a   Cronin, Kathleen A ^a   Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Feuer, Eric J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Cumulative incidence function; Model validation; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE RISK; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; COVARIANCE; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856505653     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4454     Document Type: Article

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