A multivariate random frailty effects model for multiple spatially dependent survival data

Modern Methods for Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-172

  Manda, Samuel O M ^a   Feltbower, Richard G ^b   Gilthorpe, Mark S ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84869847503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3024-3_9     Document Type: Chapter

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