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Activity Number: 373 - Analysis of Duration Data, with Applications to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Type: Topic-Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 12, 2021 : 12:00 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract #319190
Title: Estimation in the singly and doubly interval censored model
Author(s): Piet Groeneboom*
Companies: Delft University
Keywords: nonparametric MLE; kernel estimates; Weibull distribution; incubation time; COVID-19
Abstract:

We analyze nonparametric estimators for the distribution function and density in the singly and doubly interval censoring model. The classical approach is to use parametric families like Weibull, log-normal or gamma in the estimation procedure. We propose nonparametric estimates which are also capable of catching finer aspects of the density, like multimodality, in contrast with the classical parametric methods. We apply this to the estimation of the density of the incubation time distribution of COVID-19. R scripts are provided for the nonparametric methods.


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