Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 6 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 129-141
doi:10.1155/S1173912602000081
Analytical bootstrap methods for censored data
Alan D. Hutson
Division of Biostatistics, P.O. Box 100212, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, FL, USA
Abstract
Analytic bootstrap estimators for the moments of survival quantities are derived. By using these expressions recommendations can be made as to the appropriateness of bootstrap estimation under censored data conditions.