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Statistics Seminar Series

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, 4:00 PM
Cullimore, Room 611
New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Statistical Analysis of Interval-Censored Data

Using Semi-Parametric Models and Empirical Likelihood Approaches

 

Zhigang Zhang

 

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

 

Abstract

In this talk I will discuss fitting the linear transformation models to interval-censored data. For inference procedures some new semi-parametric efficiency theory is needed. I will also present approximation results based on empirical likelihood approaches. Moreover, a variable selection method using the penalized jackknife empirical likelihood will be introduced.