Checking the adequacy of the gamma frailty model for multivariate failure times

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 381-393

  Glidden, David V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clayton Oakes model; Correlated survival times; Goodness of fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001383947     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.381     Document Type: Article

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