Abstract:
Let
x1,
x2,, …be a sequence of i. i. d. random oariables with distribution function
F and density function
f. The
Xi are censored on the right by
Yi, where the
Yi are iid. random variables and independent of
Xi. We only observe the sample
Zi=min(
Xi,
Yi),
δi=
I(
Xi≤
Yi) The estimator
fn(\hatf_n) based on the Kaplan-Meier estimator is the kernel-type estimate of f from
Z1, …,
Zn. In this paper, we construct a fixed-width sequantial confidence interval based on
fn(\hatf_n) Some asymptotic properties are discussed, and we give an asymptotically efficient two-stage procedure.