Modeling traumatic brain injury lifetime data: Improved estimators for the Generalized Gamma distribution under small samples.

In this paper, from the practical point of view, we focus on modeling traumatic brain injury data considering different stages of hospitalization, related to patients' survival rates following traumatic brain injury caused by traffic accidents. From the statistical point of view, the primary ob...

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Main Authors: Pedro L Ramos, Diego C Nascimento, Paulo H Ferreira, Karina T Weber, Taiza E G Santos, Francisco Louzada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221332