Partial likelihood ratio tests for the Cox model under complex sampling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-123

  Lumley, Thomas ^a   Scott, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Case cohort design; Proportional hazards; Rao Scott tests; Sample surveys; Weighting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NUTRITION; PARTIAL LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; POWER ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFIED SAMPLE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 84870866146     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5492     Document Type: Article

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