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ASYMPTOTIC AND SMALL SAMPLE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF RANDOM FRAILTY VARIANCE ESTIMATES FOR SHARED GAMMA FRAILTY MODELS

Hien T. V. Vu Department of Public Health, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 6907, U.S.A.Correspondence[email protected]
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Mark R. Segal Division of Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0560, U.S.A.
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Matthew W. Knuiman Department of Public Health, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 6907, U.S.A.Correspondence[email protected]
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Ian R. James Murdoch University, Mathematics and Statistics, Murdoch, WA, 6150, U.S.A.
Pages 581-595 | Received 24 Apr 2000, Published online: 15 Feb 2007

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