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The strong representation for the nonparametric estimation of length-biased and right-censored data

Statistics Theory 2017-08-03 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this article, we consider a useful product-limit estimator of distribution function proposed by Huang & Qin(2011) when the observations are subject to length-biased and right-censored data. The estimator retains the simple closed-form expression of the truncation product-limit estimator with some good properties. An almost sure representation for the estimator is obtained which can be used to derive many properties of functional statistics based on this product-limit estimator. The rate for the remainder in the representation is of order O(n3/4(log(n)3/4)O(n^{-3/4}(\log(n)^{3/4}) a.s.

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@article{arxiv.1409.4642,
  title  = {The strong representation for the nonparametric estimation of length-biased and right-censored data},
  author = {Jianhua Shi and Xiaoping Chen and Yong Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4642},
  year   = {2017}
}