A semiparametric multilevel survival model

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 387-404

  Zhang, Wenyang ^a   Steele, Fiona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustered data; First birth interval; Multilevel model; Semiparametric survival model

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342611117     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2003.05056.x     Document Type: Article

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