Current status data with competing risks: Consistency and rates of convergence of the MLE

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1031-1063

  Groeneboom, Piet ^a   Maathuis, Marloes H ^b,d   Wellner, Jon A ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Consistency; Current status data; Maximum likelihood; Rate of convergence; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049097462     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000974     Document Type: Article

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