David Byar's approach to the analysis of survivaldata with covariates

Byar, 1983, Analysis of survival data: Cox and Weibull models with covariates Berkson, 1950, Calculation of survival rates for cancer, 25, 270 Kaplan, 1958, Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations, J Am Stat Assoc, 53, 457, 10.2307/2281868 Greenwood, 1926, The Natural Duration of Cancer Feigl, 1965, Estimation of exponential survival probabilities with concomitant information, Biometrics, 21, 826, 10.2307/2528247 Zippin, 1971, Use of concomitant variables and incomplete survival information in the estimation of an exponential survival parameter, Biometrics, 22, 665, 10.2307/2528067 Byar, 1974, An exponential model relating censored survival data and concomitant information for prostatic cancer patients, JNCI, 52, 321, 10.1093/jnci/52.2.321 Glasser, 1967, Exponential survival with covariance, J Am Stat Assoc, 62, 561, 10.2307/2283983 Cox, 1968, A general definition of residuals (with discussion), J R Stat Soc Ser B, 30, 248 Cox, 1971, Regression models and life-tables (with discussion), J R Stat Soc Ser B, 34, 187 Byar, 1979, A prognostic index for thyroid carcinoma. A study of the EORTC Thyroid Cancer Cooperative Group, Eur J Cancer, 15, 1033, 10.1016/0014-2964(79)90291-3 Byar, 1984, Analysis of prognostic factors for prostatic cancer in the VACURG studies Byar, 1977, Selecting optimal treatment in clinical trials using covariate information, J Chron Dis, 30, 445, 10.1016/0021-9681(77)90037-6 Mantel, 1974, Evaluation of response-time data involving transient states: an illustration using heart transplant data, J Am Stat Assoc, 69, 81, 10.2307/2285503 Chastang, 1988, A quantitative study of the bias in estimating the treatment effect caused by omitting a balanced covariate in survival models, Stat Med, 7, 1243, 10.1002/sim.4780071205 Gail, 1984, Biased estimates of treatment effect in randomized experiments with nonlinear regressions and omitted covariates, Biometrika, 71, 431, 10.1093/biomet/71.3.431