Applying competing risks regression models: An overview

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-58

  Haller, Bernhard ^a   Schmidt, Georg ^b   Ulm, Kurt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard; Competing risks; Mixture model; Pseudo observation approach; Subdistribution hazard; Vertical modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84871350344     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-012-9230-8     Document Type: Article

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