Variance components models for survival data

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 193-211

  Petersen, J H ^a   Andersen, P K ^a   Gill, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Censored survival data; Correlated frailty; Correlated life times; EM algorithm; Heterogeneity; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030534580     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.1996.tb01487.x     Document Type: Article

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