The survival of newly founded firms: A case-study into varying-coefficient models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 145-158

  Kauermann, Göran ^a   Tutz, Gerhard ^b   Brüderl, Josef ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duration time modelling; Local likelihood; Non proportional hazard model; Survival data; Varying coefficient models

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844249472     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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