Parametric models for incubation distribution in presence of left and right censoring

Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 371-384

  Srinivasa Rao, Arni S R ^a   Basu, Srabashi ^b   Basu, Ayanendranath ^b   Ghosh, Jayanta K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

AIDS; HIV Infection; Left and Right Censoring; Survival Data

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344443659     PISSN: 00195588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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