Homogeneity testing in a Weibull mixture model

Statistical Papers

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-332

  Mosler, Karl ^a   Scheicher, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dispersion score test; Goodness of fit; Hazard models; Mixture diagnosis; Survival analysis; Weibull to exponential transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749002055     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-006-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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