Estimating the association parameter for copula models under dependent censoring

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

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 257-273

  Wang, Weijing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Archimedean copula models; Bivariate survival analysis; Competing risk; Cross ratio function; Estimating function; Frailty models; Identifiability; Kendall's ; Log rank statistic; Multistate process; Semi competing risks data; Semiparametric inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141576499     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00385     Document Type: Article

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