Performance and prediction for varying survival time scales

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 636-649

  Chalise, Prabhakar ^a   Chicken, Eric ^b   Mcgee, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline age; Cumulative hazard; Left truncation; Time scale; Time on study time; Time to event

Indexed keywords

BASELINE AGE; LEFT-TRUNCATION; TIME-ON-STUDY TIME; TIME-SCALES; TIME-TO-EVENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAZARDS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84870279193     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2011.650259     Document Type: Article

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