Estimation of Phase-type Distributions from Censored Data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 443-460

  Olsson, Marita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Interval censored observations; Phase type distribution; Right censored observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030524223     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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