On the unification of long-term survival models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 753-759

  Rodrigues, Josemar ^a   Cancho, Vicente G ^b   de Castro, Mário ^b   Louzada Neto, Francisco ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 60449109910     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.10.029     Document Type: Article

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