Jackknifing the Kaplan-Meier Survival Estimator for Censored Data: Simulation Results and Asymptotic Analysis.

Abstract

The Kaplan-Meier estimate is a non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate for the probability of equipment of human survival. This report describes a jackknife confidence limit procedure for probability of survival, based on K.-M., and describes confidence limit properties by simulation and by asymptotic analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA111721

Entities

People

  • Donald P. Gaver Jr.
  • Rupert G. Miller Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymptotic Normality
  • Confidence Limits
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Military Research
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Survival

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Statistical inference.