Two estimators of the mean of a counting process with panel count data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 779-814

  Wellner, Jon A ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Asymptotic distributions; Consistency; Convex minorant; Counting process; Current status data; Empirical processes; Interval censoring; Iterative; Maximum likelihood; Monte carlo; Pseudo likelihood; Relative efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034359461     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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