Nonparametric Estimation for a form of Doubly Censored Data, with Application to Two Problems in AIDS
一种双重删失数据的非参数估计及其在艾滋病研究中的应用
In many epidemiologic studies of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, interest focuses on the distribution of the length of the interval of time between two events. Two such problems are considered here, estimation of the distribution of time or number of sexual contacts between infection of an individual (an index case) and transmission of HIV to their sexual partner, and estimation of the distribution of time between infectiousness as a blood donor and the…