Maximum likelihood estimation in a semiparametric logistic/proportional- hazards mixture model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-75

  Fang, Hong Bin ^a   Gang, L I ^b   Sun, Jianguo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Censoring; Consistency; Cox's model; Cure model; Cure rate; Logistic regression; Mixture model; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644398505     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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