Hazard models with varying coefficients for multivariate failure time data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 324-354

  Cai, Jianwen ^a   Fan, Jianqing ^c   Zhou, Haibo ^a   Zhou, Yong ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Local pseudo partial likelihood; Marginal hazard model; Martingale; Multivariate failure time; One step estimator; Varying coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849040002     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001145     Document Type: Article

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