A general class of parametric models for recurrent event data

Technometrics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-221

  Stocker IV, Russell S ^a   Peña, Edsel A ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting processes; Effective age; Martingales; Stochastic integration

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

COUNTING PROCESSES; EFFECTIVE AGE; MARTINGALES; STOCHASTIC INTEGRATION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 34248995832     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017007000000056     Document Type: Article

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