Simultaneous confidence bands for ratios of survival functions via empirical likelihood

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-415

  McKeague, Ian W ^a   Zhao, Yichuan ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution free; Kaplan Meier estimator; Nelson Aalen estimator; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037114417     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00309-7     Document Type: Article

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