Semiparametric Likelihood Ratio-Based Inferences for Truncated Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 437, 1997, Pages 236-245

  Li, Gang ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^a   Qin, Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased sampling; Empirical likelihood; Incubation time; Interval estimation; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031475525     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473621     Document Type: Article

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