Choice between semi-parametric estimators of Markov and non-Markov multi-state models from coarsened observations

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-52

  Commenges, Daniel ^a   Joly, Pierre ^a   Gégout Petit, Anne ^b   Liquet, Benoit ^c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Counting processes; Cross validation; Dementia; Interval censoring; Kullback Leibler loss; Markov models; Multi state models; Penalized likelihood; Semi Markov models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847411839     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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