Survival analysis for the missing censoring indicator model using kernel density estimation techniques

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-136

  Subramanian, Sundarraman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth sequence; Functional delta method; Independent increments; Kernel density estimator; Lyapounov central limit theorem; Standard Wiener process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644501816     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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