Nonparametric location-scale models for censored successive survival times

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1118-1131

  Van Keilegom, Ingrid ^a   de Uña Álvarez, Jacobo ^b   Meira Machado, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bivariate distribution; Conditional distribution; Error distribution; Progressive three state model; Recurrent events; Transfer of tail information; Transition probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549254485     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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