Estimation in semiparametric marginal shared gamma frailty models

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-501

  Vu, Hien T V ^a   Knuiman, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frailty variance estimates; Gamma frailty; Marginal hazard functions; Marginal shared frailty models; Non parametric hazard functions; Semiparametric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036889811     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00250     Document Type: Article

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