Competing risk analyses: How are they different and why should you care?

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2127-2129

  Chappell, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84859828691     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-0455     Document Type: Short Survey

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