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Jeremy Balka
Back to facultyAssociate ProfessorMathematical and Physical Sciences, Department of Mathematics & StatisticsUniversity of Guelph
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Review and implementation of cure models based on first hitting times for Wiener processes
Lifetime Data Analysis · 2009 · first author
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Review and implementation of cure models based on first hitting times for Wiener processes
Balka J, Desmond AF, McNicholas PD
Lifetime Data Analysis200974 citationsFirst author
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