A general framework for parametric survival analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 5280-5297

  Crowther, Michael J ^a   Lambert, Paul C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gaussian quadrature; Maximum likelihood; Parametric modelling; Relative survival; Splines; Survival analysis; Time dependent effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIAL CLASS; VERY ELDERLY; BIOMETRY; BREAST TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84918819549     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6300     Document Type: Article

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