A simulation comparison of parametric and nonparametric estimators of quantiles from right censored data

Master of Science === Department of Statistics === Paul I. Nelson === Quantiles are useful in describing distributions of component lifetimes. Data, consisting of the lifetimes of sample units, used to estimate quantiles are often censored. Right censoring, the setting investigated here, occurs, f...

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Main Author: Serasinghe, Shyamalee Kumary
Language:en_US
Published: Kansas State University 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4318