Asymptotically efficient estimation of a survival function in the missing censoring indicator model

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 797-817

  Subramanian, Sundarraman ^a  

^a University of Maine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth sequence; Kernel density estimator; Limit theory; Mean integrated squared error; Reduced data nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator; U statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042638402     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250410001681176     Document Type: Article

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