A review of software packages for analyzing correlated survival data

American Statistician

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-342

  Kelly, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure time; Frailty; Marginal model; Multivariate; Random effect; Robust

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744253804     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313004X5419     Document Type: Review

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