Estimation under length-bias and right-censoring: An application to unemployment duration analysis for married women

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-291

  de Una Álvarez, Jacobo ^a   Otero Giráldez, M Soledad ^a   Álvarez Llorente, Gema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

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EID: 0037381139     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266476022000030066     Document Type: Article

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