Modelling converging hazards in survival analysis

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-281

  Barker, Peter ^a   Henderson, Robin ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

converging hazards; E M algorithm; gamma frailty; local likelihood; semi parametric

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 4043150623     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:LIDA.0000036392.68675.7f     Document Type: Article

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