A smooth test in proportional hazard survival models using local partial likelihood fitting

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-393

  Kauermann, Göran ^a   Berger, Ursula ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IGES Inst G /Sozialforsch GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cox model; Local likelihood; Proportional hazard model; Smooth tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TIME;

BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2942575152     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LIDA.0000012423.68151.da     Document Type: Article

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