Non-parametric quantile regression with censored data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 527-550

  Gannoun, Ali ^a,c   Saracco, Jérôme ^a   Yuan, Ao ^b   Bonney, George E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Censored data; Conditional quantiles; Kaplan Meier estimator; Kernel estimator; Local linear fitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044452421     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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