A likelihood based estimating equation for the Clayton-Oakes model with marginal proportional hazards

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 509-521

  Pipper, Christian Bressen ^a   Martinussen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clayton Oakes model; Marginal proportional hazards; Multivariate failure times; Semiparametric likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042362217     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00345     Document Type: Article

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