Testing for independence in a competing risks model

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 527-535

  Carling, Kenneth ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bivariate failure times; Bivariate mixing distributions; Dependent competing risks; Likelihood ratio test; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BIVARIATE FAILURE TIMES; DEPENDENT COMPETING RISKS MODEL; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

FAILURE TIME; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RISK MODEL;

EID: 0042041759     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-9473(96)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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