Oil the Equivalence of pavlov-ushakov and kaplan-meier estimators of survival probability in multiply censored sample |
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| Authors: | I Gertabakh |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science , Ben Gurion University of the Negev , P.O. Box 653, Beersheva , Israel |
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| Abstract: | It is proved that the unbiased estimator of survival probability in a multiply censored sample suggested by Pavlov & Ushakov (1980, 1984) is equivalent to the Kaplan-Meier Product-Limit estimator. |
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| Keywords: | survival probability unbiased estimation censored sample |
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