Approximate Self Consistency for Middle - Censored Data
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Middle censoring refers to data that becomes unobservable if it falls within a random interval. The lifetime distribution of such data is defined via the self-consistency equation. We propose an approximation to this distribution function for which an estimator and its asymptotic properties are very easy to establish. Abbreviated title: Estimation for middle-censored data.
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