Semiparametric Inference Methods for General Time Scale Models

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 263-276

  Duchesne, Thierry ^a   Lawless, Jerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Collapsible model; Generalized residuals; Ideal time scale; Linear rank estimator; Minimum coefficient of variation; Separable scale model; Unbiased estimating function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

CANADA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 0036717203     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015853905091     Document Type: Article

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