On self-consistent estimators and kernel density estimators with doubly censored data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-43

  Ren, Jian Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Failure rate function; Right censored data; Survival distribution; Uniform strong consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031591994     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00188-7     Document Type: Article

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