Fisher information in ordered randomly censored data with applications to characterization problems

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 507-517

  Zheng, Gang ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

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

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Factorization; Fisher information; Hazard function; Koziol Green model; Order statistics; Time dependent; Weibull family

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041364620     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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