Keywords and phrases: cure rate models, COM-Poisson distributions, generalized gamma lifetimes, likelihood ratio test, Akaike information criteria, Bayesian information criteria.
Received: September 21, 2022; Revised: September 30, 2022; Accepted: October 15, 2022; Published: November 4, 2022
How to cite this article: Janani Amirtharaj and G. Vijayasree, Likelihood inference using EM based algorithm for COM-Poisson cure rate model with generalized gamma lifetimes under interval censoring, Advances and Applications in Statistics 82 (2022), 65-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0972361722081
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