Simulation study of the glmm method applied to the analysis of clustered survival data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-200

  Yau, K K W ^a   McGilchrist, C A ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clustered survival data; GLMM; ML; REML

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030298598     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659608811761     Document Type: Article

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