The identifiability of the mixed proportional hazards competing risks model

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 701-710

  Abbring, Jaap H ^a   Van den Berg, Gerard J ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Duration model; Frailty; Identification; Mixed proportional hazard; Multiple spells

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042672846     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00410     Document Type: Article

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