Parfm: Parametric frailty models in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Munda, Marco ^a   Rotolo, Federico ^b   Legrand, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exponential; Gamma; Gompertz; Inverse gaus sian; Loglogistic; Lognormal; Parametric frailty models; Parfm; Positive stable; R; Survival analysis; Weibull

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872769514     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v051.i11     Document Type: Article

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