A class of goodness of fit tests for a copula based on bivariate right-censored data

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 815-824

  Andersen, Per K ^a   Ekstrøm, Claus T ^a,b   Klein, John P ^c   Shu, Youyi ^d   Zhang, Mei Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate censored data; Copula; Frailty model

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE; BIVARIATE CENSORED DATA; BIVARIATE DATUM; BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION; CENSORED DATA; COPULA; FRAILTY MODELS; GOODNESS OF FIT; KAPLAN-MEIER; PARAMETRIC FAMILY;

STATISTICS;

EID: 29844458312     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410163     Document Type: Article

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