An Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Including Oncological COVID-19 Deaths in Survival Analysis.

We address the problem of how COVID-19 deaths observed in an oncology clinical trial can be consistently taken into account in typical survival estimates. We refer to oncological patients since there is empirical evidence of strong correlation between COVID-19 and cancer deaths, which implies that C...

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Published in:Current Oncology Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 2105 - 2127
Main Authors: De Felice, Francesca, Mazzoni, Luca, Moriconi, Franco
Format: Journal Article
Published: MDPI Feb2023
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