Bias reduction in nonparametric hazard rate estimation

The need of improvement of the bias rate of convergence of traditional nonparametric hazard rate estimators has been widely discussed in the literature. Initiated by recent developments in kernel density estimation we distinguish and extend three popular bias reduction methods to the hazard rate cas...

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Main Author: Bagkavos, Dimitrios Ioannis
Published: University of Birmingham 2003
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274598