A Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz type inequality for the Kaplan-Meier estimator

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 735-763

  Bitouze D ^a   Laurent, B ^b   Massart, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Censored data; Empirical process; Exponential inequality; Kaplan Meier estimator; Law of iterated logarithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033227358     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0246-0203(99)00112-0     Document Type: Article

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