The Geometric Birnbaum-Saunders regression model with cure rate

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 993-1000

  Cancho, Vicente G ^a   Louzada, Francisco ^a   Barriga, Gladys D C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Cure fraction models; Geometric distribution; Lifetime data; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864133358     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.11.007     Document Type: Article

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