Nonparametric estimation and regression analysis with left-truncated and right-censored data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 435, 1996, Pages 1166-1180

  Gross, Shulamith T ^a   Lai, Tze Leung ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Bootstrap; Censoring; M estimator; Regression; Synthetic data; Truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041850231     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476986     Document Type: Article

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