Interval censoring: Model characterizations for the validity of the simplified likelihood

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-326

  Oller, Ramon ^a   Gómez, Guadalupe ^b   Calle, M Luz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constant sum condition; Noninformative censoring; Nonparametric likelihood inferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044250842     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315932     Document Type: Review

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