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Estimating time-varying treatment switching effect using accelerated failure time model with application to vascular access for hemodialysis

Fang-I Chua Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA;b Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Yuedong Wangb Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USAView further author information
Pages 5145-5154 | Received 20 Jan 2021, Accepted 05 Nov 2021, Published online: 30 Nov 2021

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