Hazard function. A deterministic point of view.

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Authors	POSPÍŠIL Zdeněk
Year of publication	2004
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Summer School Datastat03, Proceedings, Folia Fac. Sci. Nat. Univ. Masaryk. Brunensis, Mathematica 15.
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Applied statistics, operation research
Keywords	hazard function; death rate; parametric estimation; breast carcinoma
Description	The hazard function is an important characteristic of the random variable - survival time. At the same time it can be considered to be a coefficient - death rate - in a deterministic model of a cohort survival. This observation allows us to determine the hazard function from survival data in a parametric way. The idea is illustrated on carcinoma patients data.
Related projects:	Functional-differential equations and mathematical-statistical models