Robust and efficient parametric estimation for censored survival data

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 341-355

  Basu, Srabashi ^a   Basu, Ayanendranath ^b   Jones, M C ^c  

^a Skytech Solutions Pvt Ltd   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density power divergence; Kaplan Meier; L 2 estimator; M estimator

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIMULATION;

DENSITY POWER DIVERGENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER; L 2-ESTIMATOR; M-ESTIMATOR;

STATISTICS;

EID: 33745138221     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: 15729052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10463-005-0004-x     Document Type: Article

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