Randomly censored data consist of i.i.d. pairs of observations (Xi,[delta]i), i=1,...,n. If [delta]i=0, Xi denotes a censored observation, and if [delta]i=1, Xi denotes a survival time, which is the variable of interest. A popular stochastic measure of the distance between the density function f...

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Marginal likelihood and conditional likelihood are often used for eliminating nuisance parameters. For a parametric model, it is well known that the full likelihood can be decomposed into the product of a conditional likelihood and a marginal likelihood. This property is less transparent in a...