On consistency of the monotone MLE of survival for left truncated and interval-censored data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-57

  Pan, Wei ^a   Chappell, Rick ^b   Kosorok, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cumulative hazard function; Monotone hazard; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Vague convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032523368     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00153-3     Document Type: Article

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