Local linear estimation for time-dependent coefficients in Cox's regression models

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-111

  Cai, Zongwu ^a   Sun, Yanqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Censored data; Local constant fitting; Local linear fitting; Local partial likelihood; Proportional hazards model; Time dependent covariate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038784393     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00320     Document Type: Article

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