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possibly age-varying (non-proportional), and there is multiplicative frailty with arbitrary distribution. Our framework … incorporates a wide variety of order restrictions on covariate dependence and duration dependence (ageing). We propose estimation … on the nature of ageing. For example, relevant theory may suggest that the baseline hazard function decreases with age …
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Dependent censoring arises in biomedical studies when the survival outcome of interest is censored by competing risks. In survival data with microarray gene expressions, gene selection based on the univariate Cox regression analyses has been used extensively in medical research, which however,...
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In small samples and especially in the case of small true default probabilities, standard approaches to credit default probability estimation have certain drawbacks. Most importantly, standard estimators tend to underestimate the true default probability which is of course an undesirable...
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The aim of this paper is to model the length of registration at university and its associated academic outcome for undergraduate students at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. Survival time is defined as the time until the end of the enrollment period, which can relate to different...
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Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, we hypothesize that workers who had a temporary contract before the spell of unemployment will experience...
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Business incubators are mechanisms which aim to formation and development of new ventures and to survive of these ventures through various supportive services. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of business incubator programs and its services on tenant firm performance in the...
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discuss an important extension to testing for proportionality of hazards in the presence of individual level frailty with …
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The relationship between calorie and nutrient (fat, protein, and carbohydrates) intake as a function of income is explored using data for 171 countries over two time periods 1990-1992 and 2003-2005. Three types of analysis are employed: i) nonparametric, ii) panel regressions, and iii) quantile...
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The time-series dynamics of short-term interest rates are important as they are a key input into pricing models of the term structure of interest rates. In this paper we extend popular discrete time short-rate models to include Markov switching of infinite dimension. This is a Bayesian...
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This study develops practical methods for Bayesian nonparametric inference in regression models. The emphasis is on extending a nonparametric treatment of the regression function to the full conditional distribution. It applies these methods to the relationship of earnings of men in the United...
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