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SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Monotonic Estimators for the Survival Function of Quality Adjusted Lifetime

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Pages 1217-1231 | Received 19 Mar 2004, Accepted 22 Oct 2004, Published online: 02 Sep 2006

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