Asymptotic theory for the correlated gamma-frailty model

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 183-214

  Parner, Erik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Correlated frailty; Heterogeneity; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Semiparametric models; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032395685     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1030563982     Document Type: Article

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