Asymptotic theory for nonparametric estimation of survival curves under order restrictions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1679-1716

  Præstgaard, Jens Thomas ^a   Huang, Jian ^b  

^a North Carolina   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concave majorant; Nonparametric survival analysis; Order restrictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030352156     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032298291     Document Type: Article

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