One-sided tests in shared frailty models

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Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-82

  Claeskens, Gerda ^a   Nguti, Rosemary ^b   Janssen, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Frailty models; Inference under inequality constraints; Likelihood ratio test; Mixture of 2 distributions; Score test; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549167788     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-006-0023-9     Document Type: Article

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