Minimum Distance Estimators of Scale with Censored Data
删失数据下尺度参数的最小距离估计
This article examines how the level of censoring affects the performance of estimators of scale that minimize a weighted Cramérvon Mises distance between the Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator of the survival distribution function and an assumed model. The article shows that under certain conditions these estimators are asymptotically normal if the survival function is a member of the assumed scale family. Weights that minimize the asymptotic variance under these…