Covariate measurement errors in frailty models for clustered survival data

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 849-866

  Li, Yi ^a   Xihong, Lin ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; Em algorithm; Frailty measurement error model; Identifiability; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013091698     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.4.849     Document Type: Article

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