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Abstract
The mean or median of the follow-up times as a measure of the quality or completeness of the follow-up in a survival analysis can sometimes be misleading--a more severe disease will have shorter follow-up times because of earlier deaths. We suggest here that estimates of the censoring distribution provide a more useful measure of the follow-up. This paper gives estimation procedures for both grouped-time (cohort) data and continuous data, and provides an application.Mesh:
Year: 1986 PMID: 3738291 DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780050306
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Stat Med ISSN: 0277-6715 Impact factor: 2.373