The unobserved heterogeneity distribution in duration analysis

Biometrika

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-99

  Abbring, Jaap H ^a   Van Den Berg, Gerard J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Duration analysis; Exponential mixture; Gamma distribution; Limit distribution; Mixed proportional hazard

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947118743     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asm013     Document Type: Article

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