In many clinical,biomedical,and epidemiologic cancer studies,the outcome of interest is the time until an event(or failure)occurs,and“survival analysis”is performed to estimate the effect of covariates on survival.M...In many clinical,biomedical,and epidemiologic cancer studies,the outcome of interest is the time until an event(or failure)occurs,and“survival analysis”is performed to estimate the effect of covariates on survival.Most clinical investigators are familiar with the term“right censoring”.The type of censoringwe focus on in this paper is“intervalcensoring”[1-3].展开更多
文摘In many clinical,biomedical,and epidemiologic cancer studies,the outcome of interest is the time until an event(or failure)occurs,and“survival analysis”is performed to estimate the effect of covariates on survival.Most clinical investigators are familiar with the term“right censoring”.The type of censoringwe focus on in this paper is“intervalcensoring”[1-3].