Bootstrapping the NPMLE for doubly truncated data
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986812401 Doubly truncated data appear in a number of applications, including astronomy and survival analysis. In this paper we review the existing methods to compute the NPMLE under double truncation, which has no explicit form and must be approximated numerically. We introduce the bootstrap as a method to estimate the finite sample distribution of the NPMLE under double truncation. The performance of the bootstrap is investigated in a simulation study. The nonstandard case in which the right and left truncation times determine each other is covered. As an illustration, nonparametric estimation and inference on the birth process and the age at diagnosis for childhood cancer in North Portugal is considered.
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