Non-parametric hypothesis testing and confidence intervals with doubly censored data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-91

  Chen, Kun ^a   Zhou, Mai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Empirical likelihood ratio; Influence function; Modified self consistent algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037364569     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021834206327     Document Type: Article

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