article
Testing homogeneity inWeibull error in variablesmodels
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10.1007
Autor
Valença, Dione Maria
Bolfarine, Heleno
Resumen
Wediscusspropertiesofthescorestatisticsfortestingthenullhypothesis
ofhomogeneityinaWeibullmixingmodelinwhichthegroupeffectismodelledas
arandomvariableandsomeofthecovariatesaremeasuredwitherror.Thestatistics
proposed are based on the corrected score approach and they require estimation
onlyundertheconventionalWeibullmodelwithmeasurementerrorsanddoesnot
require that the distribution of the random effect be specified. The results in this
paperextendresultsinGimenez,Bolfarine,andColosimo(AnnalsoftheInstitute
ofStatisticalMathematics,52,698–711,2000)forthecaseofindependentWeibull
models.Asimulation study is provided.