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

DOI10.1080/03610928208828387zbMath0508.62034MaRDI 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 estimation; linear constraints; density estimation; Kaplan-Meier estimator; random censorship; right-censored data; unimodal density; decreasing densities; survival function estimation; SUMT algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

90C25: Convex programming

90C90: Applications of mathematical programming

90C30: Nonlinear programming

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