Marginal proportional hazards models for multiple event-time data

Biometrika

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 581-586

  Yang, Yaning ^a   Ying, Zhiliang ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Hazard function; Marginal method; Maximum likelihood estimator; Multiple event times; Multivariate distribution; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944341635     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/88.2.581     Document Type: Article

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