The regression analysis of correlated interval-censored data: Illustration using accelerated failure time models with flexible distributional assumptions

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-319

  Komárek, Arnošt ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^b,c,d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Interval censoring; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Paired data; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749126082     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0900900403     Document Type: Article

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