Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Assignment 2
Due: 10 March 2009 (hand in to the instructor at the beginning of class)
1. You are given the following censored and truncated data:
I d
i
x
i
u
i
1 0 1 -
2 0 2 -
3 0 - 3
4 2.5 4 -
5 2 5 -
6 0 - 4.5
7 3 - 10
8 0 8 -
(a) Create a table of y
j
, r
j
, and s
j
, for j =1, 2, , k, where k is the total number of
death points.
(b) Calculate S
8
(2) and its variance.
(c) Calculate (4) H
= .
That is, in the absence of censoring and truncation, the Greenwoods method and
the empirical method yield the same variance of S
n
(t).
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