Likelihood ratio type two-sample tests for current status data

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 645-662

  Groeneboom, Piet ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current status data; Likelihood ratio test; Maximum smoothed likelihood estimators; Non parametric two sample tests; Weibull distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870059515     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2012.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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