Estimation of the quantiles of the duration of old age

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 101-106

  Veraverbeke, Noël ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asymptotic representation; Censoring; Kaplan Meier estimator; Primary 62G05; Quantile; Residual lifetime; Secondary 62G20

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042408226     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00311-6     Document Type: Article

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