Destructive weighted Poisson cure rate models

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-346

  Rodrigues, Josemar ^a   de Castro, Mário ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^c   Cancho, Vicente G ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Conway Maxwell Poisson (COM Poisson) distribution; Cure rate models; Long term survival models; Weighted Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958269404     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-010-9189-2     Document Type: Article

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