Empirical likelihood for the contrast of two hazard functions with right censoring

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 392-401

  Zhao, Yichuan ^a   Zhao, Meng ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical likelihood; Hazard function; Kernel smoothing; Right censored data

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650627735     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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