Modeling the agreement of discrete bivariate survival times using kappa coefficient

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 309-332

  Guo, Ying ^a   Manatunga, Amita K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Kappa; Multivariate discrete survival times; Pseudo likelihood

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 24144465144     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-005-2965-8     Document Type: Article

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