A new class of survival regression models with heavy-tailed errors: Robustness and diagnostics

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 316-332

  Barros, Michelli ^a   Paula, Gilberto A ^b   Leiva, Víctor ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Generalized Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Likelihood methods; Local influence; Log linear models; Residual analysis; Robustness; Sinh normal distribution

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 46349107106     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-008-9085-1     Document Type: Article

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