A Test for Independence of Competing Risks with Discrete Failure Times

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 215-223

  Crowder, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; Competing risks; Discrete failure times; Identifiability; Risk dependency; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIFE TABLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031304884     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009696830515     Document Type: Article

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