A non-parametric maximum likelihood estimator for bivariate interval censored data
- 29 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Statistics in Medicine
- Vol. 18 (22) , 3089-3100
- https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19991130)18:22<3089::aid-sim191>3.0.co;2-0
Abstract
We derive a non‐parametric maximum likelihood estimator for bivariate interval censored data using standard techniques for constrained convex optimization. Our approach extends those taken for univariate interval censored data. We illustrate the estimator with bivariate data from an AIDS study. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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