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Logspline density estimation with an application to the study of survival data of lung cancer patients

Posted on:2005-10-29Degree:M.SType:Thesis
University:East Tennessee State UniversityCandidate:Chen, YongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2454390008978636Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
A Logspline method of estimating an unknown density function f based on sample data is studied. Our approach is to use maximum likelihood estimation to estimate the unknown density function from a space of linear splines that have a, finite number of fixed uniform knots. In the end of this thesis, the method is applied to a real survival data set of lung cancer patients.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lung cancer patients, Survival data, Density
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