Testing for homogeneity in an exponential mixture model

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 231-247

  Mosler, Karl ^a   Seidel, Wilfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frailty model; Goodness of fit; Hazard models; Likelihood tests; Mixture diagnosis; Overdispersion; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035635535     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00168     Document Type: Article

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