Local likelihood analysis of survival data with censored intermediate events

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 454, 2001, Pages 449-457

  Bebchuk, Judith D ^a   Betensky, Rebecca A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard estimation; Imputation; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542784242     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753168163     Document Type: Article

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