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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-10-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-020-01139-z |