Bias induced by ignoring double truncation inherent in autopsy-confirmed survival studies of neurodegenerative diseases.
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DOI: 10.1002/sim.8185
Abstract: Neurodegenerative diseases require an autopsy for confirmation of diagnosis. When death is the event of interest, studies based on autopsy-confirmed diagnoses result in right truncated survival times because individuals who live past the end of… read more here.
Keywords: autopsy confirmed; neurodegenerative diseases; double truncation; studies neurodegenerative ... See more keywords