The role of frailty models and accelerated failure time models in describing heterogeneity due to omitted covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 215-224

  Keiding, Niels ^a   Andersen, Per Kragh ^a   Klein, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COVARIANCE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

EID: 0031014355     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19970130)16:2<215::aid-sim481>3.3.co;2-a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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