Extending the iterative convex minorant algorithm to the cox model for interval-censored data?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 109-120

  Pan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; EM; Generalized gradient projection; ICM; Interval censoring; Isotonic regression; Lasso; NPMLE

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033475250     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474804     Document Type: Article

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