Functional inference in frailty measurement error models for clustered survival data using the SIMEX approach

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 461, 2003, Pages 191-203

  Li, Yi ^a   Lin, Xihong ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic bias; Clustered survival data; Efficiency; Frailty model; Martingale residual; Measurement error; Robustness; Score test; SIMEX; Variance component

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037363334     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503388619210     Document Type: Article

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