Inference for the poly-Weibull model

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-196

  Davison, A C ^a   Louzada Neto, F ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian bootstrap; Bi Weibull distribution; Competing risks; Identifiability; Laplace approximation; Likelihood; Sampling importance resampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000565148     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00229     Document Type: Article

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