The Likelihood Ratio Test for the Presence of Immunes in a Censored Sample

DOI10.1080/02331889508802521zbMath0863.62015MaRDI QIDQ2785892

Ross A. Maller, S. A. Zhou

Publication date: 3 June 1997

Published in: Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02331889508802521

zbMATH Keywords

mixture; reliability; consistency; asymptotic normality; exponential distribution; likelihood ratio test; chi-square distribution; censored data; mixture model; failure time; independent censoring; medical statistics; criminology; estimating an immune proportion; failure distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62F03: Parametric hypothesis testing

62F05: Asymptotic properties of parametric tests

62N05: Reliability and life testing

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