A new, fast algorithm to find the regions of possible support for bivariate interval-censored data

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 330-340

  Bogaerts, Kris ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bivariate survival; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042586797     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860043371     Document Type: Article

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