Partial orders with respect to continuous covariates and tests for the proportional hazards model

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 243-261

  Bhattacharjee, Arnab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous covariate; Frailty; Increasing hazard ratio; Partial orders of lifetime distributions; Proportional hazards; Time varying coefficients; Two sample tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956292809     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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