Non-homogeneous Markov models in the analysis of survival after breast cancer

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

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 111-124

  Pérez Ocón, Rafael ^a   Ruiz Castro, Juan Eloy ^b   Gámiz Pérez, M Luz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Covariates; Maximum likelihood estimate; Non homogeneous markov process; Survival data; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035650334     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00223     Document Type: Article

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