A hybrid ML-EM algorithm for calculation of maximum likelihood estimates in semiparametric shared frailty models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 173-187

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

EM; Frailty variance estimates; Hybrid ML EM; ML; MLE; Newton raphson; Non parametric hazards; Shared frailties; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MODEL; PARAMETRIC TEST; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

EID: 0037189764     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(01)00099-8     Document Type: Article

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