A Note on Inconsistency of NPMLE of the Distribution Function from Left Truncated and Case I Interval Censored Data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-291

  Pan, Wei ^a   Chappell, Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative hazard function; EM algorithm; Survival analysis; Vague convergence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0033193423     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009632400580     Document Type: Article

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