On consistency of the self-consistent estimator of survival functions with interval-censored data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-44

  Yu, Qiqing ^a   Li, Linxiong ^b   Wong, George Y C ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Case 2 interval censored data; Exact observations; Non parametric maximum likelihood estimator; Self consistent algorithm; Strong consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340722     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00176     Document Type: Article

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