Exact nonparametric confidence bands for the survivor function

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 185-204

  Matthews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exact simultaneous confidence bands; Kaplan Meier estimator; Noe recursions; Right censoring; Survivor function

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG CANCER; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOE RECURSION ALGORITHM; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONPARAMETRIC CONFIDENCE BAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVOR FUNCTION; VAN WIJNGAARDEN DECKER BRENT ROOT FINDING ALGORITHM; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84898630301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2012-0046     Document Type: Article

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