Adjusted Score Tests of Homogeneity for Poisson Processes

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 308-319

  Ng, Edmund T M ^a   Cook, Richard J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias adjustment; Counting process; Multiplicative intensity; Piecewise exponential model; Random effect; Semiparametric model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325007     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473846     Document Type: Article

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