The probability of degenerate maximum-likelihood estimates with randomly truncated survival data

DOI10.2307/3315814zbMath0778.62029OpenAlexW2129412369MaRDI QIDQ4272588

Duncan J. Murdoch, A. J. Benjamin

Publication date: 12 December 1993

Published in: Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3315814

zbMATH Keywords

extreme valuesbivariate datamarginal distributionrecursive formulaenonparametric maximum-likelihood estimatortruncated samplingtruncated sumdegenerate estimatesinfection and incubation densitylarge- sample approximationstransfusion-associated AIDSuniform-intensity model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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