Estimation of variance in Cox's regression model with shared gamma frailties

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1475-1484

  Andersen, Per Kragh ^a,b   Klein, John P ^c   Knudsen, Kim M ^b,d   Tabanera Y Palacios, René ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Frailty model; Nonparametric MLE; Observed information; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS;

COX'S REGRESSION MODEL; EM ALGORITHMS; FRAILTY MODELS; NONPARAMETRIC MLE; NONPARAMETRICS; OBSERVED INFORMATION; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME; VARIANCE;

EID: 0031452175     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533513     Document Type: Article

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