Correcting inaccurate background mortality in excess hazard models through breakpoints

Correcting inaccurate background mortality in excess hazard models through breakpoints

Abstract Background Methods for estimating relative survival are widely used in population-based cancer survival studies. These methods are based on splitting the observed (the overall) mortality into excess mortality (due to cancer) and background mortality (due to other causes, as expected in the...

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Main Authors: Robert Darlin Mba, Juste Aristide Goungounga, Nathalie Grafféo, Roch Giorgi, CENSUR working survival group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Excess mortality
Background mortality
Net survival
Additional variable
Breakpoint
Life table
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-020-01139-z

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