Weighted empirical likelihood in some two-sample semiparametric models with various types of censored data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-166

  Ren, Jian Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased sampling; Bootstrap; Case control data; Doubly censored data; Empirical likelihood; Interval censored data; Kolmogorov Smirnov statistic; Likelihood ratio; Logistic regression; Maximum likelihood estimator; Partly interval censored data

Indexed keywords

EID: 50649091389     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000695     Document Type: Article

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