Comparison of kernel estimators of conditional distribution function and quantile regression under censoring

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 329-344

  Gannoun, Ali ^a   Saracco, Jérôme ^b,c   Yu, Keming ^d  

^a University of Paris Cité   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Censored data; Conditional quantile; Kernel estimator; Local linear estimator; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 45249085235     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0700700404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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