A generalization of the product-limit estimator with an application to censored regression

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1088-1108

  Yang, Song ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Censored regression; Martingales; Product limit estimator; Robustness; Weighted empirical process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031494447     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362739     Document Type: Article

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