Rank regression analysis of multivariate failure time data based on marginal linear models

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Jin, Z ^a   Lin, D Y ^b,c   Ying, Z ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Censoring; Correlated data; Linear programming; Survival data; Weighted log rank statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645087941     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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