Estimation and tests in finite mixture models for censored survival data

Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 363-388

  Lemdani, Mohamed ^a   Pons, Odile ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic theory; Censoring; Likelihood ratio test; Martingale; Maximum likelihood; Mixture models; Survival analysis; Susceptibility ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043129120     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331889708802596     Document Type: Article

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