Hazard function estimation from homogeneous right censored data with missing censoring indicators

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 515-527

  Subramanian, Sundarraman ^a   Bean, Derek ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Empirical estimators; Liapounov central limit theorem; Maximum likelihood estimator; Missing at random; Semiparametric random censorship models

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049087449     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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