Evidence suggests that in Iwaija, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of northern Australia, the Intonation Phrase (IP) is an integrated entity, one which is typical of a cursus language (Pulgram,1970) like French, in which words in connected speech give up some of the properties they exhibit in isolation. A salient feature of the prosody of this language is syllabification across content word boundari...

The unified hybrid censoring is a mixture of generalized Type-I and Type-II hybrid censoring schemes. This article presents the statistical inferences on Generalized Exponential Distribution parameters when the data are obtained from the unified hybrid censoring scheme. It is observed that the maximum likelihood estimators can not be derived in closed form. The EM algorithm for computing the ma...

The mixture of Type I and Type II censoring schemes, called the hybrid censoring. This article presents the statistical inferences on lognormal parameters when the data are hybrid censored. We obtain the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) and the approximate maximum likelihood estimators (AMLEs) of the unknown parameters. Asymptotic distributions of the maximum likelihood estimators are used ...

We consider random design nonparametric regression when the response variable is subject to right censoring. Following the work of Fan and Gijbels (1994), a common approach to this problem is to apply what has been termed a censoring unbiased transformation to the data to obtain surrogate responses, and then enter these surrogate responses with covariate data into standard smoothing algorithms....

Censoring occurs when complete follow-up time information is unavailable for patients 9 enrolled in a clinical study. The process is considered to be informative (nonignorable) if the 10 likelihood function for the censoring model cannot be partitioned into a set of response parameters 11 that are independent of the censoring parameters. In such cases, estimated survival time 12 probabilities m...

Objectives Methods accounting for competing risks in time-to-event problems are becoming common in mainstream statistical analyses. Standard approaches include those based on log-rank type tests [1] and cumulative incidence regression [2]. These approaches are based on weighting competing events by the censoring distribution. The usual cumulative incidence regression uses weights based on the p...

Extending the model of progressive Type-II censoring, an adaption process is introduced. It allows to choose the next censoring number taking into account both the previous censoring numbers and the previous failure times. After deriving some distributional results, it is shown that maximum likelihood estimators coincide with those in deterministic progressive Type-II censoring. Finally, infere...

A basic and inevitable problem in estimating flow duration distribution arises from “censoring” (i.e., cutting off) the observed flow duration because of a finite measurement period. We extended the KaplanMeier method, which is used in the survival analysis field, and applied it to recover information on the flow duration distribution that was lost due to censoring. We show that the flow durati...

The Cox proportional hazards model is often used to analyse time-to-event data. In many patients, the event time is unknown, either due to dropout or study end. This is known as censoring. When using the Cox proportional hazards model, it is assumed that censoring is independent of event time. However, this is an untestable, often implausible assumption; it may be that censoring is associated w...