Effect of frailty on marginal regression estimates in survival analysis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 367-379

  Henderson, Robin ^b   Oman, Paul ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Censoring; Consistency; Cox model; Frailty; Marginal model; Multivariate survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033478761     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00182     Document Type: Article

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