A Note on the Complementary Mixture Pareto II Distribution |
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| Authors: | Yimei Li Daniel F Heitjan |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Oncology , The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA liy3@email.chop.edu;3. Department of Biostatistics &4. Epidemiology , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA |
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| Abstract: | We introduce a new survival distribution, of Pareto type, that arises from a cure-mixture frailty model. We describe its properties and demonstrate connections with familiar distributions including the Pareto and exponential. We derive its characteristic function and moments. |
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| Keywords: | Characteristic function Moments Pareto distribution Survival distribution |
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