Validity of the Aalen-Johansen estimators of stage occupation probabilities and Nelson-Aalen estimators of integrated transition hazards for non-Markov models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 403-411

  Datta, Somnath ^a   Satten, Glen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Multistage model; Nonparametric estimation; Product integral; Product limit Estimator; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000921703     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00155-9     Document Type: Article

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