Nonparametric estimation of the gap time distributions for serial events with censored data

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-70

  Lin, D Y ^a   Sun, W ^b   Ying, Zhiliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate distribution; Correlated failure times; Dependent censoring; Kaplan Meier estimator; Multiple events; Multivariate failure time; Recurrent events

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003110242     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.1.59     Document Type: Article

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