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SUBMITTER: Joeng HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4676960 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Joeng Hee-Koung HK Chen Ming-Hui MH Kang Sangwook S
Lifetime data analysis 20150315 1
Discrete survival data are routinely encountered in many fields of study including behavior science, economics, epidemiology, medicine, and social science. In this paper, we develop a class of proportional exponentiated link transformed hazards (ELTH) models. We carry out a detailed examination of the role of links in fitting discrete survival data and estimating regression coefficients. Several interesting results are established regarding the choice of links and baseline hazards. We also chara ...[more]