McLachlan, Geoff; Ng, Angus; Adams, Peter; McGiffin, … - In: Journal of Statistical Software 02 (1997) i07
We consider the fitting of a mixture of two Gompertz distributions to censored survival data. This model is therefore applicable where there are two distinct causes for failure that act in a mutually exclusive manner, and the baseline failure time for each cause follows a Gompertz distribution....