Ruimin, Xu; D, McNicholas Paul; F, Desmond Anthony; A, … - In: The International Journal of Biostatistics 7 (2011) 1, pp. 1-15
We investigate a competing risks model, using the specification of the Gompertz distribution for failure times from competing causes and the inverse Gaussian distribution for failure times from the cause of interest. The expectation-maximization algorithm is used for parameter estimation and the...