Maximum likelihood estimation of a stoch
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Kenneth G. Manton; Eric Stallard
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Article
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1979
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Closed form maximum likelihood estimators are derived for a generalization of a model of cancer latency (Tolley, Burdick, Manton, and Stallard, Biometrics 35, 1978) by making two assumptions. First it was assumed that the cancer hazard was a constant proportion of the force of mortality within an ag