Discrete scale models for survival-sacrifice experiments

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-109

  Rai, S N ^b   Matthews, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additive failure rate; Multiplicative failure rate; Occult tumour studies; Semiparametric model; Tumour incidence rate

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIATION;

ADDITIVE/MULTIPLICATIVE FAILURE RATES; OCCULT TUMOR; TUMOR INCIDENCE RATE;

CARCINOGENS;

EID: 0039268892     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00049     Document Type: Article

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