The strong law under random truncation

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 992-1010

  He, Shuyuan ^a   Yang, Grace L ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonparametric estimation; Product limit; Random truncation; Reverse supermartingale; Strong law of large numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032356068     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691085     Document Type: Article

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