Likelihood Inference for Flexible Cure Rate Models with Gamma Lifetimes

DOI10.1080/03610926.2014.964807zbMath1332.62385OpenAlexW1881491292MaRDI QIDQ2796904

Suvra Pal, Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

Publication date: 30 March 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2014.964807

zbMATH Keywords

EM algorithmlikelihood ratio testgamma distributionBayesian information criterion (BIC)profile likelihoodcure rate modelsweighted Poisson distributionAkaike information criterion (AIC)long-term survivorConway-Maxwell Poisson (COM-Poisson) distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02)

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