Estimation of the quantile function of an IFRA distribution

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 293-310

  Rojo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Confidence bands; Kaplan Meier estimator; Star shaped

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032384244     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00104     Document Type: Article

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