On the Fisher information in randomly censored data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 421-426

  Zheng, Gang ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard rate; Koziol Green model; Loss of Fisher information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041348962     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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