An urn model in the simulation of interval censored failure time data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-139

  Lee, Chinsan ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Failure time data; Interval censored data; Self consistent algorithm; Simulation; Urn model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009908985     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(99)00051-6     Document Type: Article

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