Gompertzian hazard function

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Authors	POSPÍŠIL Zdeněk
Year of publication	2005
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	4-th International Conference Aplimat
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	General mathematics
Keywords	Survival analysis; hazard function; estimation of parameters
Description	The contribution suggests a hazard function to be a multiple of the Gompetrz function derivative and it presents reasons for such a choice. A method for estimation of parameters of the proposed hazard function is described and it is demonstrated on simulated data.
Related projects:	Functional-differential equations and mathematical-statistical models