Statistics of extremes under random censoring

Bernoulli

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-227

  Einmahl, John H J ^a   Fils Villetard, Amélie ^b   Guillou, Armelle ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Extreme quantiles; Extreme value index; Random censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449091915     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/07-BEJ104     Document Type: Article

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