Accelerated Lifetime Data Analysis with a Nonconstant Shape Parameter

Table 4

The estimates of and .

Predictor	Proposed method		GLM method		EM method
	Intercept	7.4322	2.6977	7.410	2.667	7.4044	2.7464
	−0.6506	−0.2788	−0.640	−0.208	−0.6380	−0.2338
	−0.9019	0.4384	−0.910	0.338	−0.9033	0.3339
	−0.0774	−2.6829	0.006	−1.879	0.0019	−2.0063
	0.0808	−0.0527	0.081	−0.035	0.0793	−0.0258
	0.2939	−0.4335	0.301	−0.441	0.3077	−0.5125
	−0.2880	0.5635	−0.309	0.367	−0.3097	0.4082