On an exponential bound for the Kaplan-Meier estimator

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-496

  Wellner, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence bands; Empirical distribution; Inequalities; Product limit estimator; Random censoring; Right censoring; Uniform limit theorems; Universal limit theorems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 37649015731     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-007-9055-z     Document Type: Article

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