Self-Consistency Estimation of Distributions Based on Truncated and Doubly Censored Survival Data with Applications to AIDS Cohort Studies

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 305-313

  Sun, Jianguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS cohort studies; AIDS incubation distribution; Distribution of HIV infection time; Self consistency equations

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIFE TABLE; MALE; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEMOPHILIA A; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031307778     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009609227969     Document Type: Article

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