Left truncated and right censored Weibull data and likelihood inference with an illustration

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4011-4025

  Balakrishnan, N ^a   Mitra, Debanjan ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic confidence intervals; Asymptotic variance covariance matrix; EM algorithm; EM gradient algorithm; Left truncation; Lifetime data; Maximum likelihood estimates; Missing information principle; Newton Raphson method; Right censoring; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE-COVARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EM ALGORITHMS; GRADIENT ALGORITHM; LEFT TRUNCATION; LIFETIME DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MISSING INFORMATION; RIGHT CENSORING;

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84864146274     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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