A note on a unified approach for cure rate models

A note on a unified approach for cure rate models

Mário de Castro, Vicente G. Cancho, and Josemar Rodrigues

Source: Braz. J. Probab. Stat. Volume 24, Number 1 (2010), 100-103.

Abstract

Yin and Ibrahim [Canad. J. Statist. 33 (2005) 559–570] presented a unified class of cure rate models based on a Box–Cox type transformation of the population survival function. Our work provides a probabilistic justification to this transformation by means of the negative binomial distribution.

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Keywords: Survival analysis; cure rate models; long-term survival models; negative binomial distribution

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