The Cox shared frailty model with log-skew-normal frailties

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 399-418

  Callegaro, Andrea ^a   Iacobelli, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; frailty model; multivariate survival analysis; skewed normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866296636     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X12460146     Document Type: Article

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