Simulation of multivariate gamma data with exponential marginals for independent clusters

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 487-500

  London, Wendy B ^a   Gennings, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Exchangeable correlation structure; Multivariate exponential; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009932982     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919908813561     Document Type: Article

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