An unbiased estimator for the survival function of censored data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2249-2260

  Chiu, S N ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Generalized reduced sample type estimator; Kaplan Meier; Nelson Aalen; Random censorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013007108     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929908832419     Document Type: Article

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