Destructive negative binomial cure rate model and EM-based likelihood inference under Weibull lifetime

Suvra Pal and N. Balakrishnan

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2016, vol. 116, issue C, 9-20

Abstract: In this paper, we develop likelihood inference based on EM algorithm for the destructive negative binomial cure rate model. A simulation study is carried out to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm and a cancer melanoma data is then analyzed.

Keywords: Competing cause scenario; Long-term survivors; Profile likelihood; Maximum likelihood estimates; EM algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2016.04.005

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