Although nonparametric analyses of bivariate failure times under independent censoring have been widely studied, nonparametric analyses of bivariate competing-risks data have not yet been investigated ...

Bivariate survival models with discretely distributed frailty based on the major gene concept and applied to the data on related individuals such as twins and sibs can be used to estimate the ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Procedures are proposed for testing the hypothesis of independence between two discrete or discretized random variables, one or both of which ...