Characterizations of competing risks in terms of independent-risks proxy models

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-64

  Crowder, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; Competing risks; Discrete failure times; Identifiability; Proxy models; Risk dependency; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340726     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00178     Document Type: Article

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