A composite likelihood approach to multivariate survival data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 295-302

  Parner, Erik T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Composite likelihood; Frailty models; Multivariate failure times; Pseudo likelihood survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035531254     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00238     Document Type: Article

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