2023/10/06 by Piet Groeneboom, Groeneboom, Piet
Mathematics · Environmental Science · #Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications #Hydrology and Drought Analysis #Statistical Methods and Inference
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.04225
We analyze nonparametric estimators for the distribution function of the incubation time in the singly and doubly interval censoring model. The classical approach is to use parametric families like Weibull, log-normal or gamma distributions in the estimation procedure. We propose nonparametric estimates which stay closer to the data than the classical parametric methods. We also give explicit limit distributions for discrete versions of the models and apply this to compute confidence intervals. The methods complement the analysis of the continuous model. R scripts for computation of the estimates are provided on https://github.com/pietg/incubationtime.