Dimension-reduced nonparametric maximum likelihood computation for interval-censored data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2388-2402

  Wang, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Censored data; Constrained Newton method; Iterative convex minorant algorithm; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Subspace based Newton method; Survival function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

CENSORED DATA; CONSTRAINED NEWTON METHOD; ITERATIVE CONVEX MINORANT ALGORITHM; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SUBSPACE-BASED NEWTON METHOD; SURVIVAL FUNCTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 38149021346     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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