The robust inference for the cox proportional hazards model

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 84, Issue 408, 1989, Pages 1074-1078

  Lin, D Y ^a   Wei, L J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic theory; Model misspecification; Partial likelihood; Regression; Robustness; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892372742     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1989.10478874     Document Type: Article

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