On Algorithms for the Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Failure Function With Censored Data

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-140

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Jamshidian, Mortaza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double censoring; EM algorithm; Gradient projection algorithm; Interval censoring; Iterative convex minorant algorithm; Rosen method

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842434519     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860043038     Document Type: Article

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