Efficient estimation for the proportional hazards model with interval censoring

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 540-568

  Huang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current status data; Information; Interval censoring; Maximum (profile) likelihood estimator; Proportional hazards model; Semiparametric model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030501199     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1032894452     Document Type: Article

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