Inference under right censoring for transformation models with a change-point based on a covariate threshold

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 957-989

  Kosorok, Michael R ^a   Song, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change point models; Empirical processes; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Proportional hazards model; Proportional odds model; Right censoring; Semiparametric efficiency; Transformation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849129500     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001244     Document Type: Article

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