Estimation of rate and mean functions from truncated recurrent event data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 300-310

  Hu, X Joan ^a   Lawless, Jerald F ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nonparametric estimation; Population size; Reliability; Truncation distribution; Zero truncated data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000819935     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476689     Document Type: Article

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