A note on a unified approach for cure rate models

Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-103

  De Castro, Mário ^a   Cancho, Vicente G ^a   Rodrigues, Josemar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cure rate models; Long term survival models; Negative binomial distribution; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969258034     PISSN: 01030752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-BJPS015     Document Type: Article

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