Nonparametric estimation of successive duration times under dependent censoring

Biometrika

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 561-572

  Wang, Weijing ^a   Wells, Martin T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary endpoints; Bivariate survival data; Dependent censoring; Informative censoring; Product limit estimator; Serial failure events

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001411255     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/85.3.561     Document Type: Article

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