Authors: Paosheng Shen
Publish Date: 2010/03/31
Volume: 63, Issue: 6, Pages: 1207-1219
Abstract
Patilea and Rolin Ann Stat 342925–938 2006 proposed a productlimit estimator of the survival function for twice censored data In this article based on a modified selfconsistent MSC approach we propose an alternative estimator the MSC estimator The asymptotic properties of the MSC estimator are derived A simulation study is conducted to compare the performance between the two estimators Simulation results indicate that the MSC estimator outperforms the productlimit estimator and its advantage over the productlimit estimator can be very significant when right censoring is heavy
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