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Correcting inaccurate background mortality in excess hazard models through breakpoints
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 general...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7596976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33121436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01139-z |