Asymptotic Properties of Kaplan-meier Estimator for Censored Dependent Data
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In some long term studies, a series of dependent and possibly censored failure times may be observed. Suppose that the failure times have a common marginal distribution function, and inferences about it are of our interest. The main result of this paper is that of providing, under certain regularity conditions, the Kaplan-Meier estimator can be expressed as the mean of random variables, with a remainder of some order. In addition, the asymptotic normality of the Kaplan-Meier estimator is derived.
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