Interval censored data: A note on the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of the distribution function

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 462-466

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Schlattmann, Peter ^a   Dietz, Ekkehart ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C.A.MAN; Interval censoring; Mixture model; Nonparametric estimator of survival time; Vertex exchange algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001067764     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.2.462     Document Type: Article

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