A hybrid algorithm for computation of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator from censored data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 945-959

  Wellner, Jon A ^a   Zhan, Yihui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MathSoft   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Censoring; EM algorithm; Hybrid method; Iterative convex minorant; Missing data; Self consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744452231     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474049     Document Type: Article

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