The edgeworth expansions and smoothed bootstrap approximation for the studentized Kaplan-Meier estimator

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 571-587

  Wang, Qihua ^a   Zheng, Zhongguo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Asymptotic representation; Asymptotic variance; Edgeworth expansion; Jackknife estimator; Studentized Kaplan Meier estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363479     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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