Nonparametric inference
Survival data is subject to censoring and we need to introduce a new quantity to capture this information. Suppose that we have a n IID random sample of lifetime random variables in , and we know that the event of interest might have occurred or that it will occur sometime in the future. The additional information is captured by the Kronecker indicator variable, :
Thus, we have n pairs of random observations in the Ts and s, ...
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