Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 103 - 109
(May 2008)
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A NOTE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE
KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATOR UNDER
GENERAL CENSORSHIP
Jiantian Wang (U. S. A.)
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Abstract: It is commonly believed that the Kaplan-Meier estimator will overestimate or underestimate the true survival function depending on whether the failure time and censoring time are positively or negatively correlated. This note provides some counterexamples to this common belief. |
Keywords and phrases: Kaplan-Meier estimator, survival function, overestimation, underestimation. |
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