Smooth goodness-of-fit tests for composite hypothesis in hazard based models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1935-1971

  Peña, Edsel A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Counting process; Generalized residual; Local asymptotic relative efficiency; Martingale central limit theorem; Multiplicative intensity model; Neyman's test; Nuisance parameters and adaptiveness; Score test; Test for exponentiality; Test for Weibul

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044454987     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691364     Document Type: Article

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