USING 1-PARAMETER SUB-FAMILY OF DISTRIBUTIONS IN EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD RATIO WITH CENSORED DATA Xiao-rong Pan and Mai Zhou University of Kentucky

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  • Xiao - rong Pan
  • Mai Zhou
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Abstract Recently it has been shown that empirical likelihood ratios can be used to form confidence intervals and test hypothesis just like the parametric case. We illustrate here the use of a particular kind of 1-parameter sub-family of distributions in the analysis of empirical likelihood with censored data. This approach not only simplifies the theoretical analysis of the limiting behavior of the empirical likelihood ratio, it also gave us clues for the numerical search of constrained maxima of an empirical likelihood.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004