Estimating summary functionals in multistate models with an application to hospital infection data

Computational Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-197

  Allignol, Arthur ^a,b   Schumacher, Martin ^b   Beyersmann, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aalen Johansen estimator; Bootstrap; Competing risks; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955466674     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-010-0200-x     Document Type: Article

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