A class of transformed mean residual life models with censored survival data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 803-815

  Sun, Liuquan ^a   Zhang, Zhigang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 66549116124     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0130     Document Type: Article

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