Time-dependent cross ratio estimation for bivariate failure times

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 341-354

  Hu, Tianle ^a   Nan, Bin ^a   Lin, Xihong ^b   Robins, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated survival times; Empirical process theory; Local dependency measure; Pseudo partial likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957834963     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr005     Document Type: Article

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