Estimation in semiparametric conditional shared frailty models with events before study entry

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 621-637

  Vu, Hien T V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Busselton health study; Conditional shared frailty models; Events before study entry; Gamma frailties; Hybrid ML EM; Log normal frailties; MLE; Non parametric hazards

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DISEASE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FRAILTY DISTRIBUTION; FRAILTY VARIANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

ALGORITHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842781624     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00368-7     Document Type: Article

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