Genetic analysis of cause of death in a mixture model of bivariate lifetime data

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 89-102

  Wienke, Andreas ^a   Yashin, Anatoli I ^a   Christensen, Kaare ^b   Skytthe, Axel ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

coronary heart disease; dependent competing risks; frailty; mixture models; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993776002     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082x02st030oa     Document Type: Article

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