Nonparametric estimation of the bivariate CDF for arbitrarily censored data

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 557-571

  Gentleman, Robert ^a   Vandal, Alain C ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censored data; Clique graph; Interval censoring; Maximal cliques; Nonparametric likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036977606     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316096     Document Type: Article

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