Asymptotic properties of nonparametric estimation based on partly interval-censored data

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 501-519

  Huang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Bootstrap; Empirical process; Interval censoring; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation; Self consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346551723     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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