In this paper, we consider estimation of survivor functions from groups of observations with right-censored data when the groups are subject to a stochastic ordering constraint. Many methods and algorithms have been proposed to estimate distribution functions under such restrictions, but none have completely satisfactory properties when the observations are censored. We propose a pointwise cons...

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 120 | number 10 | October 2012 A 383 As Morfeld noted in his letter, adjustment for the healthy worker survivor effect is complex. We do not claim that adjustment using employment duration completely adjusts for a healthy worker survivor effect, but our results provided evidence that it is present in this cohort and should be addressed. The authors dec...

 VAWA 2013 now specifically extends housing protections to survivors of sexual assault, and adds “intimate partner” to the list of eligible relationships in the domestic violence definition. Protections also now cover an “affiliated individual,” which includes any person living with the survivor and related to him or her by blood or marriage including the survivor’s spouse, parent, brother, si...

A data set of missiles tested at various times consists entirely of leftand right-censored observations. We present an algorithm for computing the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of the survivor function. When there are a signi"cant number of tied observations, the algorithm saves signi"cant computation time over a direct implementation of the survivor function estimate given in Ande...

This study explored how pre-service teachers integrated literacy in middle level social studies. This study was conducted in the context of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their focus on disciplinary literacy, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards and their focus on rich clinical experiences, and concepts of interdisciplinary and integrated curric...

Survivor care plans have been described as useful tools for enhancing the quality of follow-up care that cancer survivors receive after their active treatment has been completed. The relative success of current survivor care plan models is strongly dependent on the actions of individual patients. In this qualitative study of 33 cancer survivors, we explored patients' understanding of follow-up ...

In a Viterbi Decoder, there are two known memory organization techniques for the storage of survivor sequences from which the decoded information sequence is retrieved. The register erchange method is the simplest conceptually but suffers from the disadvantage that every bit in the memory must be read and rewritten for each information bit decoded. The alternative is the traceback method where ...

This paper presents implementation of a soft decision Viterbi decoder suitable for convolution codes with short constraint lengths. The decoder is based on a property of Viterbi algorithm that states “if the survivor paths from all possible states at time n are traced back then with high probability all the paths merge at time n-L where L is the survivor path length”. Pipeline structures are in...