Estimation with Cox models: Cause-specific survival analysis with misclassified cause of failure

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 194-202

  Van Rompaye, Bart ^a   Jaffar, Shabbar ^b   Goetghebeur, Els ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856918888     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182454cad     Document Type: Article

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