Copulas, degenerate distributions and quantile tests in competing risk problems

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1572-1587

  Bedford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competing risk; Constrained estimator; Copula; Preventive maintenance; Reliability; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 30944433211     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.10.029     Document Type: Article

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