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Empirical Bayes Estimation of a Distribution (Survival) Function from Right Censored Observations

Empirical Bayes Estimation of a Distribution (Survival) Function from Right Censored Observations

This paper provides an empirical Bayes approach to the problem of nonparametric estimation of a distribution (or survival) function when the observations are censored on the right. The results use the notion of a Dirichlet process prior introduced by Ferguson. The paper presents a generalization to the case of right …