The decomposition of time-varying hazard into phases, each incorporating a separate stream of concomitant information

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 81, Issue 395, 1986, Pages 615-624

  Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Naftel, David C ^a   Turner, Malcolm E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Cumulative hazard; Hazard function; Logistic regression; Mixture distributions; Parametric analysis; Risk factors; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000208392     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1986.10478314     Document Type: Article

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