Empirical likelihood for the difference of quantiles under censorship

Statistical Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 437-457

  Shen, Junshan ^a   He, Shuyuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Censored data; Difference of quantiles; Empirical likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947542251     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-006-0346-3     Document Type: Article

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