Computation of nonparametric convex hazard estimators via profile methods

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-518

  Jankowski, Hanna K ^a   Wellner, Jon A ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Active set method; Least squares; Maximum likelihood; Optimisation; Shape constraint; Support reduction algorithm; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449428648     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: 10290311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250902745359     Document Type: Article

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