Smooth goodness-of-fit tests for the baseline hazard in cox's proportional hazards model

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 442, 1998, Pages 673-692

  Peña, Edsel A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting process; Directional test; Generalized residual; Model validation; Multiplicative intensity model; Omnibus test; Partial likelihood; Random censorship model; Score test; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044459724     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473720     Document Type: Article

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