A simple estimator for a shared frailty regression model

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

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 317-329

  Fine, Jason P ^a   Glidden, David V ^b   Lee, Kristine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster effect; Genetic epidemiology; Multiplicative hazards; Partial likelihood; Ratio estimator; Semiparametric estimation; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141464845     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00388     Document Type: Article

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