A marginal likelihood approach to estimation in frailty models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 985-990

  Lam, K F ^a   Kuk, Anthony Y C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Censoring; Importance sampling; Laplace transform; Monte Carlo method

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744450667     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474053     Document Type: Article

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