Density estimation under random censorship and order restrictions: From asymptotic to small samples

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 454, 2001, Pages 667-684

  Efromovich, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficient of difficulty; Data driven estimation; Isotonic estimation; Nonparametric; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542573404     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753168334     Document Type: Article

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