Abstract
SUMMARY: Standard convex optimization techniques are applied to the analysis of interval censored data. These methods provide easily verifiable conditions for the self-consistent estimator proposed by Turnbull (1976) to be a maximum likelihood estimator and for checking whether the maximum likelihood estimate is unique. A sufficient condition is given for the almost sure convergence of the maximum likelihood estimator to the true underlying distribution function.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 618-623 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Biometrika |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1994 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:R. Gentleman was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. G. J. Geyer was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Keywords
- Convergence
- Self-consistency algorithm
- Uniqueness