One sample goodness of fit tests in presence of shape restrictions on the hazard rate function

Sankhya B

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-194

  Habtzghi, Desale ^a   Datta, Somnath ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Hazard rate; Lifetimes; Log rank test; p value; Shape restricted estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034579333     PISSN: 09768386     EISSN: 09768394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13571-011-0033-9     Document Type: Article

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