The additive genetic gamma frailty model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-269

  Korsgaard, Inge Riis ^a   Andersen, Anders Holst ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Additive genetic gamma frailties; Censoring; Correlated frailties; Counting process; EM algorithm; Semi parametric model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039390163     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00102     Document Type: Article

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