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Original Articles

A general algorithm for non-parametric maximum likelihood estimator of stochastically ordered survival functions from case 2 interval-censored data

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Pages 807-818 | Received 13 Apr 2017, Accepted 26 Oct 2017, Published online: 25 Dec 2017

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