Modification of the Greenwood formula for correlated response times

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 885-899

  Kang, Shin Soo ^a   Koehler, Kenneth J ^b  

^a Catholic Kwandong University   (South Korea)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Life table analysis; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Product limit estimator; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

LIFE TABLE; LIFE-TABLE ANALYSE; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NONPARAMETRICS; PRODUCT-LIMIT ESTIMATOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES; TABLE ANALYSIS;

SAMPLING;

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030880556     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533550     Document Type: Article

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