Regression methods for gap time hazard functions of sequentially ordered multivariate failure time data

Biometrika

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 291-303

  Schaubel, Douglas E ^a   Cai, Jianwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating equation; Inverse weighting; Multivariate survival; Ordered events; Proportional hazards regression; Semiparametric model

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944504475     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/91.2.291     Document Type: Article

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