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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhang M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4190616 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biometrics 20101029 3
In epidemiologic studies of time to an event, mean lifetime is often of direct interest. We propose methods to estimate group- (e.g., treatment-) specific differences in restricted mean lifetime for studies where treatment is not randomized and lifetimes are subject to both dependent and independent censoring. The proposed methods may be viewed as a hybrid of two general approaches to accounting for confounders. Specifically, treatment-specific proportional hazards models are employed to account ...[more]