Cure Rate Model with Spline Estimated Components

In some survival analysis of medical studies, there are often long term survivors who can be considered as permanently cured. The goals in these studies are to estimate the cure probability of the whole population and the hazard rate of the noncured subpopulation. The existing methods for cure rate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Lu
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28359
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07222010-123652/