Survival Estimation Using Splines

DOI10.2307/2531200zbMath0624.62043OpenAlexW4300178286WikidataQ52629442 ScholiaQ52629442MaRDI QIDQ3026065

Alice S. Whittemore, Joseph B. Keller

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2531200

zbMATH Keywords

proportional hazards modelspline functionshazard ratecensored dataverticestrapezoidsrectanglesuniformly consistentDirac delta functionsspline estimatorsKaplan-Meier estimationsurvival estimationcarcinogenesis dataNelson-Altshuler estimatornonparametric maximum likelihood procedure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Spline approximation (41A15) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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