Penalized likelihood hazard estimation: A general procedure

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 861-876

  Gu, Chong ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence rate; Covariate; Hazard; Kullback Leibler divergence; Left truncation; Right censoring; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444456230     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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