Consistency of nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation of a distribution function based on doubly interval-censored failure time data

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 311-318

  Fang, Hong Bin ^a   Sun, Jianguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Doubly interval censored data; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Self consistent estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041908430     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00160-2     Document Type: Article

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