Nonparametric likelihood ratio confidence bands for quantile functions from incomplete survival data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 628-640

  Li, Gang ^a   Hollander, Myles ^b   McKeague, Ian W ^b   Yang, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Empirical likelihood; Hall wellner band; Kaplan meier estimator; Multiplicative intensity model; Truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030493542     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032894455     Document Type: Article

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