On Testing Dependence between Time to Failure and Cause of Failure via Conditional Probabilities

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-91

  Dewan, Isha ^a   Deshpande, J V ^b   Kulathinal, S B ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Conditional probability; Dependence structures; Subsurvival functions; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542267818     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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