Likelihood inference for lognormal data with left truncation and right censoring with an illustration

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3536-3553

  Balakrishnan, N ^a,b,c   Mitra, Debanjan ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymptotic variances; EM algorithm; Left truncation; Lifetime data; Lognormal distribution; Maximum likelihood estimators; Missing information principle; Parametric bootstrap confidence intervals; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959786030     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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