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Theory and Method

Small-Sample Results for the Kaplan-Meier Estimator

Y. Y. Chen Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA
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M. Hollander Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA; Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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N. A. Langberg Department of Statistics, Haifa University, Israel
Pages 141-144 | Received 01 Jul 1980, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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