The price of Kaplan-Meier

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 467, 2004, Pages 890-896

  Meier, Paul ^a   Karrison, Theodore ^b   Chappell, Rick ^c   Xie, Hui ^d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Kaplan Meier estimator; Mean squared error; Parametric modeling; Restricted mean

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944244088     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000001259     Document Type: Review

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