Estimation of Kendall's tau under censoring

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1199-1215

  Wang, Weijing ^a   Wells, Martin T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate censored data; Bivariate survival function estimation; Bootstrap; Rank correlation; V statistic; Von Mises functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034553941     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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