Efficient computation of nonparametric survival functions via a hierarchical mixture formulation

DOI10.1007/s11222-012-9341-9zbMath1322.62237OpenAlexW2061997221MaRDI QIDQ134614

Yong Wang, Stephen M. Taylor, Stephen M. Taylor, Yong Wang

Publication date: 13 July 2012

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10292/10711

zbMATH Keywords

interval censoringsurvival functionclinical trialnonparametric maximum likelihoodconstrained Newton methoddisease-free survival

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Censored data models (62N01) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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Uses Software

• Icens
• MLEcens

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