Investigation of the freely available easy-to-use software 'EZR' for medical statistics

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 452-458

  Kanda, Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

competing risk; EZR; statistical software; time dependent covariate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875215709     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2012.244     Document Type: Article

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