Frailty models based on Lévy processes

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 532-550

  Gjessing, Håkon K ^a   Aalen, Odd O ^a   Hjort, Nils Lid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson process; Cumulative damage process; Frailty; Hazard process; L vy process; Power variance function distribution; Quasi stationary

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CUMULATIVE DAMAGE PROCESS; FRAILTY MODELS; LEVY PROCESSES; POWER VARIANCE FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION; QUASI STATIONARY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0038044714     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1051201659     Document Type: Article

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