Nonparametric Estimation of Hazard Rate Under the Constraint of Monotonicity
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
- Vol. 10 (3) , 592-614
- https://doi.org/10.1198/106186001317115135
Abstract
This article shows how to smoothly “monotonize” standard kernel estimators of hazard rate, using bootstrap weights. Our method takes a variety of forms, depending on choice of kernel estimator and ...Keywords
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