Estimation of survival and mean residual life functions from dependent random censored data

Abstract

In this article we consider the problem of estimating the survival and mean residual life functions for dependent random censoring observations on the right

Keywords

• Random censorship,survival function,mean residual life function,Archimedean copulas

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