Practical application of cure mixture model for long-term censored survivor data from a withdrawal clinical trial of patients with major depressive disorder

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Survival analysis methods such as the Kaplan-Meier method, log-rank test, and Cox proportional hazards regression (Cox regression) are commonly used to analyze data from randomized withdrawal studies in patients with major depressive...

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Main Authors: Hamasaki Toshimitsu, Sugimoto Tomoyuki, Arano Ichiro, Ohno Yuko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/10/33