Accurate confidence limits for quantiles under random censoring

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1399-1415

  Strawderman, Robert L ^a   Parzen, Michael I ^b   Wells, Martin T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Chicago   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Edgeworth expansion; Kaplan Meier estimator; Median survival; Nelson Aalen estimator; Second order accuracy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; EDGEWORTH EXPANSION; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATORS; MEDIAN SURVIVAL; NELSON-AALEN ESTIMATOR; RANDOM CENSORING; SECOND-ORDER ACCURACY; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0031438771     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533506     Document Type: Article

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