Transfer of tail information in censored regression models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1745-1784

  Van Keilegom, Ingrid ^a   Akritas, Michael G ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic representation; Bivariate distribution; Conditional distribution; Nonparametric regression residuals; Residual distribution; Right censoring; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033212474     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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