A General Class of Semiparametric Transformation Frailty Models for Nonproportional Hazards Survival Data

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1126-1135

  Choi, Sangbum ^a   Huang, Xuelin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson frailty; Counting process; Cure fraction; Discrete frailty; Nonparametric likelihood; Survival analysis; Transformation models

Indexed keywords

CURING; HAZARDS; METADATA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COMPOUND POISSON; COMPOUND POISSON FRAILTY; COUNTING PROCESS; CURE FRACTIONS; DISCRETE FRAILTY; NONPARAMETRIC LIKELIHOOD; NONPARAMETRICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL DATA; TRANSFORMATION MODELING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PH; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 84871651830     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01784.x     Document Type: Article

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