Consistency of the NPML Estimator in the Right-Censored Transformation Model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-41

  Slud, Eric V ^a,c   Vonta, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint differential equation; Frailty model; Large sample theory; Likelihood equation; Restricted NPML; Variational method

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542267819     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2004.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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