Fisher information matrices with censoring, truncation, and explanatory variables

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 221-237

  Escobar, Luis A ^a   Meeker, William Q ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic variance covariance; Lognormal distribution; Regression; Reliability; Survival analysis; Test planning; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032382672     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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