Keywords and phrases: hazard rate, life table, segmented regression, quadratic hazard rate model.
Received: December 18, 2021; Accepted: March 2, 2022; Published: March 28, 2022
How to cite this article: Suhas Bhat and S. B. Munoli, Estimation of change points in hazard rates, Advances and Applications in Statistics 75 (2022), 79-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0972361722028
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