Non-Parametric Hazard Rate Estimation under Progressive Type-II Censoring

Publisher In survival-analysis studies, estimators of the slope of cumulative-hazard-rate function provide only a crude estimate for the hazard-rate function. For this reason, it is important to estimate directly the hazard-rate function, which is the quantity of interest in many practical applications. This chapter describes how the Ramlau–Hansen-type estimator may be used to estimate the hazard-rate function based on progressively Type II …