Expo-power: A flexible hazard function for duration data models

Economics Letters

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-233

  Saha, Atanu ^a   Hilton, Lynette ^a  

^a Micronomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Duration model; Failure time; Hazard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031286464     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00029-3     Document Type: Article

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