Bootstrap confidence intervals for the mode of the hazard function

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-47

  Mazucheli, Josmar ^a   Coelho Barros, Emílio Augusto ^a   Achcar, Jorge Alberto ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bootstrap confidence intervals; Hazard function; Log logistic distribution; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; HEALTH HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

HAZARD FUNCTION; LIFETIME DATA MODELING; LOG-LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION; SHAPE PARAMETERS;

HAZARDS AND RACE CONDITIONS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 20444415228     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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