Analysis of incomplete durations with application to contraceptive use

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 549-563

  Ali, Mohamed M ^b   Marshall, Tom ^c   Babiker, Abdel G ^a  

^a Med Res Cncl Clinical Trials Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Contraceptive use; Incomplete duration; Log linear models; Log logistic distribution; Quasi likelihood; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649784     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00218     Document Type: Article

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