A universal procedure for parametric frailty models

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Gu, Ming Goa ^a   Sun, Liuquan ^b   Huang, Changquan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

Author keywords

Censored survival data; Frailty models; General parameter families; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Stochastic approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306097     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0094965031000097304     Document Type: Article

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