Regression modeling of the cumulative incidence function with missing causes of failure using pseudo-values

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3206-3223

  Moreno Betancur, Margarita ^a,b   Latouche, Aurélien ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Cumulative incidence function; Inverse probability weighting; Missing cause of failure; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

ANDERSEN KLEIN METHOD; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE FUNCTION MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK;

EID: 84880044183     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5755     Document Type: Article

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