Analyzing the emergence times of permanent teeth: An example of modeling the covariance matrix with interval-censored data

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-351

  Cecere, Silvia ^a   Jara, Alejandro ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bivariate survival; Covariance matrix; Data augmentation; Emergence times; Interval censored; Multivariate normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847374610     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082006071844     Document Type: Article

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