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

Year 2014, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 35 - 48, 01.04.2014

R S Muradov

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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