On goodness-of-fit tests for Aalen's additive risk model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 425-445

  Gandy, Axel ^a   Jensen, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aalen model; Additive risk model; Counting process; Cox regression; Goodness of fit; Martingale residuals; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344440272     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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