Aspects of the Armitage-Doll gamma frailty model for cancer incidence data

Environmetrics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-218

  Izumi, Shizue ^a,b   Ohtaki, Megu ^b  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Armitage Doll multistage model; Atomic bomb survivors; Cancer incidence; Gamma frailty; Weibull hazard

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 1942519347     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.635     Document Type: Article

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