Weighted least squares estimation for Aalen’s additive risk model

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 86, Issue 413, 1991, Pages 114-129

  Huffer, Fred W ^a   McKeague, Ian W ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb survivors; Grouped survival data; Martingale methods; MonteCarlo; Multivariate counting processes; Nonproportional hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001418190     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1991.10475010     Document Type: Article

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