A characterisation of the proportional hazards model through a measure of discrimination between two residual life distributions

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 233-235

  Ebrahimi, Nader ^a   Kirmani, S N U A ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Hazard rate; Kullback Leibler discrimination information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039878144     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.1.233     Document Type: Article

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