A non-parametric frailty model for temporally clustered multivariate failure times

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 523-533

  Härkänen, Tommi ^a   Hausen, Hannu ^b   Virtanen, Jorma I ^b   Arjas, Elja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Frailty model; Intensity model; Interval censoring; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Measurement model; Mixture model; Time dependent frailty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042362221     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00346     Document Type: Article

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