Presmoothing the transition probabilities in the illness-death model

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 797-806

  Amorim, Ana Paula ^a   de Uña Álvarez, Jacobo ^b   Meira Machado, Luís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kaplan Meier; Markov condition; Multi state models; Semiparametric censorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955129037     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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