Diagnostic Plots for Assessing the Frailty Distribution in Multivariate Survival Data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-155

  Viswanathan, Bindu ^a   Manatunga, Amita K ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic plots; Frailty models; Kernel regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

BLINDNESS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035375222     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011348823081     Document Type: Article

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