Semiparametric inference for survival models with step process covariates

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-79

  Hanson, Timothy ^a   Johnson, Wesley ^b   Laud, Purushottam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time; Covariate process; Mixture of Polya trees; Proportional hazards; Time dependent covariates

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049126658     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10001     Document Type: Article

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