Local polynomial estimation of Poisson intensities in the presence of reporting delays

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-459

  Chen, Feng ^a   Huggins, Richard M ^b   Yip, Paul S F ^a   Lam, K F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Counting process; Martingale; Non parametric procedure; Partial observation; Suicide cases

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649133264     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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