Hashimoto, Elizabeth; Cordeiro, Gauss; Ortega, Edwin - In: Computational Statistics 28 (2013) 3, pp. 933-954
For the first time, we propose a flexible cure rate survival model by assuming that the number of competing causes of the event of interest follows the Neyman type A distribution and the time to this event has the beta Weibull distribution. This new model can be used to analyze survival data...