The Kaplan-Meier estimator as an inverse-probability-of-censoring weighted average

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 207-210

  Satten, Glen A ^a   Datta, Somnath ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Horvitz Thompson estimator; Product limit estimator; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035596127     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001317098185     Document Type: Article

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