ASYMPTOTIC AND SMALL SAMPLE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF RANDOM FRAILTY VARIANCE ESTIMATES FOR SHARED GAMMA FRAILTY MODELS

DOI10.1081/SAC-100105080zbMath1008.62676MaRDI QIDQ4787601

Matthew W. Knuiman, Hien T. V. Vu, Mark R. Segal, Ian R. James

Publication date: 8 January 2003

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62N02: Estimation in survival analysis and censored data

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Uses Software

• S-PLUS
• SAS/IML

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