Asymptotic theory for the gamma frailty model with dependent censoring

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 476-499

  Kosorok, Michael R ^a   Fine, Jason P ^a   Jiang, Hongyu ^b   Chappell, Rick ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Dependent censoring; Empirical processes; Functional delta method; Gamma frailty model; U statistics; Weak convergence; Z estimators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; THEOREM PROVING;

ASYMPTOTIC THEORY; DEPENDENT CENSORING; EMPIRICAL PROCESSES; FUNCTIONAL DELTA METHOD; GAMMA FRAILTY MODEL; U-STATISTICS; WEAK CONVERGENCE; Z-ESTIMATORS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY;

EID: 12244311860     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022450708498     Document Type: Article

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