Tong, Edward N.C.; Mues, Christophe; Thomas, Lyn C. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 218 (2012) 1, pp. 132-139
Mixture cure models were originally proposed in medical statistics to model long-term survival of cancer patients in terms of two distinct subpopulations – those that are cured of the event of interest and will never relapse, along with those that are uncured and are susceptible to the event....