Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

A note on a unified approach for cure rate models

Mário de Castro, Vicente G. Cancho, and Josemar Rodrigues

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Abstract

Yin and Ibrahim [Canad. J. Statist. 33 (2005) 559–570] presented a unified class of cure rate models based on a Box–Cox type transformation of the population survival function. Our work provides a probabilistic justification to this transformation by means of the negative binomial distribution.

Article information

Source
Braz. J. Probab. Stat., Volume 24, Number 1 (2010), 100-103.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 31 December 2009

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1262271219

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/08-BJPS015

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2580992

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1298.62173

Keywords
Survival analysis cure rate models long-term survival models negative binomial distribution

Citation

de Castro, Mário; Cancho, Vicente G.; Rodrigues, Josemar. A note on a unified approach for cure rate models. Braz. J. Probab. Stat. 24 (2010), no. 1, 100--103. doi:10.1214/08-BJPS015. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1262271219


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