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A model of a “censored” experiment is formally defined. A functional is proposed which can be considered as an analog of the empirical distribution. Some properties of this functional are investigated.
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Translated fromStatisticheskie Metody Otsenivaniya i Proverki Gipotez, pp. 41–51, Perm, 1993.
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Baskakov, V.N. On an analog of empirical distribution for multivariate censored data. J Math Sci 81, 2779–2785 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362479
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362479