Interpretability and importance of functionals in competing risks and multistate models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1074-1088

  Andersen, Per Kragh ^a   Keiding, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Illness death model; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPETING RISK; DEATH; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860990672     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4385     Document Type: Article

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