Efficient estimation of the lifetime and disease onset distribution

Biometrika

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 539-554

  Van Der Laan, Mark J ^a   Jewell, Nicholas P ^a   Peterson, Derick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current status data; Kaplan Meier estimator; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442431771     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/84.3.539     Document Type: Article

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