Sieve estimation for the proportional-odds failure-time regression model with interval censoring

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 960-967

  Huang, Jian ^a   Rossini, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained maximization; Information; Isotonic regression; Maximum likelihood estimate; Profile likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744454088     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474050     Document Type: Article

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