Assessing risk with doubly censored data: An application to the analysis of radiation-induced thyropathy

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-230

  Kruglikov, Ilya L ^a   Pilipenko, Nikolaj I ^b   Tsodikov, Alexander D ^d   Yakovlev, Andrej Yu ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Grigorev Institute for Radiology   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Chernobyl accident; Data grouping; Left and right censoring; ML estimates; Nonparametric estimation; Onset time distribution; Parametric model; Radiation induced thyropathy; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031569085     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00077-6     Document Type: Article

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