Presmoothing the Aalen-Johansen estimator in the illness-death model

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1491-1516

  Moreira, Ana ^a   de Uña Álvarez, Jacobo ^b   Machado, Luís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aalen Johansen; Kaplan Meier; Markov condition; Multi state models; Semiparametric censorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884950534     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-EJS816     Document Type: Article

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