The product-limit estimate as an inverse-probability-weighted average

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1119-1133

  Shen, Pao Sheng ^a  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Product limit estimator; Random truncation

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTED AVERAGE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATOR; PRODUCT LIMIT ESTIMATOR;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0037530602     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120021323     Document Type: Article

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