A general hazard model for lifetime data in the presence of cure rate

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1395-1405

  Perdoná, Gleici Castro ^a   Louzada Neto, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cure rate modeling; Hazard modeling; HIV children; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956340373     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.505948     Document Type: Article

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