Maximum likelihood estimation of un1modal and decreasing densities based on arbitrarily right-censored data

DOI10.1080/03610928208828387zbMath0508.62034OpenAlexW2025587450MaRDI QIDQ4746659

W. J. Padgett, D. T. McNichols

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928208828387

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationlinear constraintsdensity estimationKaplan-Meier estimatorrandom censorshipright-censored dataunimodal densitydecreasing densitiessurvival function estimationSUMT algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Convex programming (90C25) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Nonlinear programming (90C30)

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