Asymptotic behavior of the unconditional npmle of the length-biased survivor function from right censored prevalent cohort data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2109-2131

  Asgharian, Masoud ^a   Wolfson, David B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censored data; Consistency; Informative censoring; Length biased sampling; NPMLE; Prevalent cohort; Survival function; Weak convergence and asymptotic efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344432123     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053605000000372     Document Type: Article

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