Gompertzian survivor function. A simulation study.

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Authors	POSPÍŠIL Zdeněk
Year of publication	2004
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	3. matematický workshop. Sborník (obsahuje CD-ROM).
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Applied statistics, operation research
Keywords	Survivor function; hazard function; parameter estimation; simulation
Description	The contribution suggests a hazard function to be a multiple of the Gompertz function derivative and it presents reason for such a choice. A method for estimation parameters of the proposed hazard function is described and it is demonstrated on simulated data.
Related projects:	Functional-differential equations and mathematical-statistical models