Penalized contrast estimation of density and hazard rate with censored data

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 441-475

  Brunel, Elodie ^a,b,c   Comte, Fabienne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c Laboratoire LIASI   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Hazard rate; Minimax rate; Nonparametric penalized contrast estimator; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645456331     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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