On assessing the association for bivariate current status data

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 879-893

  Wang, Weijing ^a   Adam Ding, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula model; Cross sectional data; Kendall's tau; Odds ratio; Pseudolikelihood; Semiparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012898293     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.4.879     Document Type: Article

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