Balka, Jeremy; Desmond, Anthony; McNicholas, Paul - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 38 (2011) 1, pp. 127-144
Failure time models are considered when there is a subpopulation of individuals that is immune, or not susceptible, to an event of interest. Such models are of considerable interest in biostatistics. The most common approach is to postulate a proportion p of immunes or long-term survivors and to...