Asymptotically efficient product-limit estimators with censoring indicators missing at random

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 749-768

  Wang, Qihua ^a,b   Ng, Kai W ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Missing at random; Product limit estimator; Random censorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849115395     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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