Informative censoring in relative survival

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 4791-4802

  Kodre, Anamarija Rebolj ^a   Perme, Maja Pohar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Informative censoring; Inverse probability weighting; Net survival; Relative survival ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATIVE CENSORING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; THYROID CANCER; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NET SURVIVAL; REGISTER; RELATIVE SURVIVAL RATIO; REVIEW; STANDARD; THYROID TUMOR;

INFORMATIVE CENSORING; INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTING; NET SURVIVAL; RELATIVE SURVIVAL RATIO;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84901565624     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5877     Document Type: Article

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