Nonparametric bayes estimation of the survival function from a record of failures and follow-ups

DOI10.1080/03610929008830445zbMath0736.62036MaRDI QIDQ3978049

Ram C. Tiwari, J. N. Zalkikar

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610929008830445

zbMATH Keywords

weak convergence; squared error loss; survival function; strong consistency; random censoring model; generalized maximum likelihood estimator; Dirichlet process prior; mixture of Dirichlet processes; mean square consistency; empirical Bayes estimator; nonparametric Bayes estimator; follow-up; limiting Bayes estimator; observed failure times; partially observable censored data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G07: Density estimation

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62C10: Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures

62C12: Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures

62N05: Reliability and life testing

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