Asymptotic properties of Kaplan-Meier estimator for censored dependent data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-389

  Cai, Zongwu ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Censored dependent data; Kaplan Meier estimator; Strong representation; mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032579677     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(97)00141-7     Document Type: Article

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