Density and hazard rate estimation for right-censored data by using wavelet methods

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-84

  Antoniadis, Anestis ^a   Grégoire, Gérard ^a   Nason, Guy ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hazard rate; Survival data; Wavelet estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473457     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00163     Document Type: Article

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