A multivariate model for repeated failure time measurements

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-67

  Crowder, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure times; Frailty models; Mixture distributions; Multivariate Burr distribution; Multivariate Weibull distribution; Paired lifetimes; Random effects; Reliability models; Repeated measures; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032379864     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00088     Document Type: Article

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