On the likelihood of mixture cure models

Antai Wang, Yilong Zhang and Yongzhao Shao

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2017, vol. 131, issue C, 51-55

Abstract: The EM algorithm has been used for inference of the mixture cure models. However, the complete-data and incomplete-data specifications have never been postulated appropriately in literature. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap by deriving proper specifications.

Keywords: Complete-data likelihood; EM algorithm; Mixture cure model; Survival transformation models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2017.08.006

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