An additive frailty model for correlated life times

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 646-661

  Petersen, Jørgen Holm ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Correlated frailty; Correlated life times; ENM algorithm; Genetic epidemiology; Heterogeneity; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED FRAILTY; CORRELATED LIFE TIME; ENM ALGORITHM; FRAILTY MODELS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGIES; HAZARD MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE-TIMES; SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC RISK; LIFE TABLE; LIFESPAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031744827     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3109771     Document Type: Article

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