Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Survival Functions of Stochastically Ordered Random Variables

DOI10.2307/2287725zbMath0498.62040OpenAlexW4246009703MaRDI QIDQ3963872

Richard L. Dykstra

Publication date: 1982

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2287725

zbMATH Keywords

order restrictionscensored observationsKaplan-Meier product limit estimatormaximum likelihood estimation of survival functions of stochastically ordered random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05)

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