Estimation strategies for censored lifetimes with a Lexis-diagram type model

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 557-576

  Brunel, Elodie ^a,b   Comte, Fabienne ^c   Guilloux, Agathe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive estimation; Biased data; Hazard rate; Lexis diagram; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Non parametric penalized contrast estimator; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249104455     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2007.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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