Competing risk bias in Kaplan-Meier risk estimates can be corrected

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 101-105

  Van Walraven, Carl ^a,b,c   Hawken, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ICES UOttawa   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Competing risks; Cumulative incidence function; Kaplan Meier estimates; Product limit; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD; INFORMATION PROCESSING BIAS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RISK; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; RISK;

EID: 84957434836     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.08.010     Document Type: Article

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