Funnel plots for population-based cancer survival: Principles, methods and applications

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1070-1080

  Quaresma, M ^a   Coleman, M P ^a   Rachet, B ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer survival; Funnel plot; Geographical variation; Population base; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; FUNNEL PLOT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; POPULATION BASE; SURVEILLANCE;

BIOSTATISTICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893763942     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5953     Document Type: Article

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