Empirical likelihood type confidence intervals under random censorship

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 447-466

  Adimari, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Censored data; Empirical likelihood; Kaplan Meier estimator; M estimator; M functional; Profile likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 9844233704     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003114711483     Document Type: Article

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