A cure rate survival model under a hybrid latent activation scheme

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 838-856

  Borges, Patrick ^a   Rodrigues, Josemar ^b   Louzada, Francisco ^c   Balakrishnan, Narayanaswamy ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

carcinogenesis process; Competing risks; cure rate models; hybrid latent activation scheme; long term survival models

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; MELANOMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME; CANCER SURVIVOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CANCER SURVIVORS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MELANOMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84964277315     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280212469682     Document Type: Article

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