Counter-intuitive properties of the Kaplan-Meier estimator

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 353-361

  Nishikawa, Masako ^a,b   Tango, Toshiro ^b  

^a Aventis Pharma Ltd   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Censored data; Time to event data; Two sample comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344196716     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2003.07.021     Document Type: Article

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