A proportional hazards model for interval-censored failure time data.

This paper develops a method for fitting the proportional hazards regression model when the data contain left-, right-, or interval-censored observations. Results given for testing the hypothesis of a zero regression coefficient lead to a generalization of the log-rank test for comparison of several survival curves. The method is used to analyze data from an animal tumorigenicity study and also a clinical trial.

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