Estimation and completion of survival data with piecewise linear models and S-distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 287-305

  He, Qin ^a   Voit, Eberhard O ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Completion; Piecewise linear hazard (PLH) model; S distribution; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844449450     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650410001729418     Document Type: Article

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