Presmoothing the transition probabilities in the illness-death model

One major goal in clinical applications of multi-state models is the estimation of transition probabilities. In a recent paper, Meira-Machado et al. (2006) introduce a substitute for the Aalen–Johansen estimator in the case of a non-Markov illness–death model. The idea behind their estimator is to w...

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Main Author: Amorim, Ana Paula (author)
Other Authors: Uña Álvarez, Jacobo de (author), Machado, Luís Meira (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/16201
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/16201