Graphical estimators from probability plots with right-censored data

Technometrics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 420-429

  Somboonsavatdee, Anupap ^a   Nair, Vijayan N ^a   Sen, Ananda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Kaplan Meier estimator; Location scale family; Lognormal distribution; Reliability; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

CENSORED DATA; LOCATION SCALE FAMILY; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA ACQUISITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 36849017891     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017007000000344     Document Type: Article

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