Nonparametric estimation of marginal distributions under bivariate truncation with application to testing for age-of-onset anticipation

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1047-1068

  Huang, Jian ^a   Vieland, Veronica J ^a   Wang, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Anticipation; Bivariate data; Consistency; Marginal distribution; Truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035734057     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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