Goodness-of-fit tests and minimum power divergence estimators for survival data

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 231-248

  Chen, Huann Sheng ^a   Lai, Kunjung ^b   Ying, Zhiliang ^c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chi squared distribution; Goodness of fit test; Life table; Power divergence statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842539326     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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