Nonparametric estimation of the joint distribution of survival time and mark variables

Biometrika

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 785-798

  Huang, Yijian ^a,b   Louis, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependent censoring; Identifiability; Marked point process; Medical cost; Multivariate distribution; Multivariate failure time; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Quality adjusted survival time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001219764     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/85.4.785     Document Type: Article

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