Proportional hazards models with discrete frailty

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 374-384

  Caroni, Chrys ^a   Crowder, Martin ^b   Kimber, Alan ^c  

^a Section of Mechanics   (Greece)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete distribution; Frailty models; Lifetime data; Limited failure model; Proportional hazards; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRONICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 77953539924     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-010-9151-3     Document Type: Article

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