Testing for monotone increasing hazard rate

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1109-1137

  Hall, Peter ^a   Van Keilegom, Ingrid ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Bootstrap; Convex function; Cumulative hazard rate; Kernel methods; Local alternative; Monotone function; Power; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744507090     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000039     Document Type: Article

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