Nonparametric Estimation of Bivariate Mean Residual Life Function under Univariate Censoring

  • Dong-Myung Jeong (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, 702-701, Korea.) ;
  • Jae-Kee Song (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, 702-701, Korea.) ;
  • Joong Kweon Sohn (Department of Statistics, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, 702-701, Korea.)
  • 발행 : 1996.03.01

초록

We, in this paper, propose a nonparametric estimator of bivariate mean residual life function based on Lin and Ying's (1993) bivariate survival function estimator of paired failure times under univariate censoring and prove the uniform consistency and the weak convergence result of this estimator. Through Monte Carlo simulation, the performances of the proposed estimator are tabulated and are illustrated with the skin grafts data.

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