Backward estimation of stochastic processes with failure events as time origins

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1602-1620

  Chan, Kwun Chuen Gary ^a   Wang, Mei Cheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Left truncation; Marked process; Prevalent cohort; Recurrent event process; Recurrent marker process; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870263308     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS319     Document Type: Article

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