Computation of the NPMLE of distribution functions for interval censored and truncated data with applications to the Cox model

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-50

  Pan, Wei ^a   Chappell, Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Gradient projection; ICM algorithm; Isotonic regression; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032120067     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(98)00026-7     Document Type: Article

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