Efficient estimation of analytic density under random censorship

Bernoulli

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 519-543

  Belitser, Eduard ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

asymptotic local minimax risk; density estimation; Kaplan Meier estimator; kernel; random censorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042227270     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318664     Document Type: Article

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