On small samples testing for frailty through homogeneity test

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-65

  Economou, Polychronis ^a   Stehlí, K Milan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Frailty; Frailty misspecification; I divergence; Likelihood; Weibull

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

FRAILTY; I-DIVERGENCE; LIKELIHOOD; MISSPECIFICATION; WEIBULL;

TESTING;

EID: 84905457349     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2013.763982     Document Type: Article

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