Inference for censored quantile regression models in longitudinal studies

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 756-781

  Wang, Huixia Judy ^a   Fygenson, Mendel ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed censoring; Logitudinal data; Quantile regression; Rank score test; Tobit model; Viral load

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349101765     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS564     Document Type: Article

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