Accelerated failure time model for arbitrarily censored data with smoothed error distribution

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 726-745

  Komárek, Arncršt ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a   Hilton, Joan F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear regression; Penalized maximum likelihood; Spline; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644463884     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186005X63734     Document Type: Article

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