Proportional hazards models: A latent competing risk approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 385-397

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Ghosh, Sujit K ^b   Christiansen, Cindy ^c   Soumerai, Stephen B ^c   McLaughlin, Thomas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Competing risk; Data augmentation; Semiparametric regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034355285     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00199     Document Type: Article

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