Frailty-Based Competing Risks Model for Multivariate Survival Data

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-426

  Gorfine, Malka ^a   Hsu, Li ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Frailty model; Multivariate survival analysis; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPETING RISKS; FAILURE TIME DATA; FRAILTY MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MULTIVARIATE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; NONPARAMETRICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; RISK MODELING; SURVIVAL DATA;

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

EID: 79959354598     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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