Sinha, Debajyoti; Ibrahim, Joseph G.; Chen, Ming-Hui - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 64 (2002) 3, pp. 467-477
We propose a new parametric survival model for cancer prevention studies. The formulation of the model is in the spirit of stochastic modelling of the occurrences of tumours through two stages: initiation of an undetected tumour and promotion of the tumour to a detectable cancer. Several novel...