Estimating Mean Survival Time: When is it Possible?
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Estimating Mean Survival Time: When Is It Possible?
For right censored survival data, it is well known that the mean survival time can be consistently estimated when the support of the censoring time contains the support of the survival time. In practice, however, this condition can be easily violated because the follow-up of a study is usually within a finite window. In this article we show that the mean survival time is still estimable from a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0303-6898,1467-9469
DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12112