A STUDY OF TIES AND TIME-VARYING COVARIATES IN COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL

In this thesis, ties and time-varying covariates in survival analysis are investigated. There are two types of ties: ties between event times (Type 1 ties) and ties between event times and the time that discrete time-varying covariates change or "jump"(Type 2 ties). The Cox proportional ha...

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Main Author: Xin, Xin
Other Authors: Darlington, Gerarda
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10214/2974