EM algorithm-based likelihood estimation for a generalized Gompertz regression model in presence of survival data with long-term survivors: an application to uterine cervical cancer data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1712-1722

  Borges, Patrick ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

bootstrap method; cure fraction; defective distributions; EM algorithm; Generalized Gompertz distribution; regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011317340     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2017.1281927     Document Type: Article

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