A competing risks derivation of a mixture model for the analysis of survival data

DOI10.1080/03610928408828883zbMath0586.62182MaRDI QIDQ3711613

Joel B. Greenhouse, Robert A. Wolfe

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928408828883

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood; Weibull distribution; mixture model; competing risks; cure; analysis of survival time data; general likelihood function; Stanford Heart Transplant Program

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62N05: Reliability and life testing

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